I'm fine, thanks!
I woke up this morning to my Spam box full of email from a variety of people, to a variety of my email boxes, greeting me and checking into my well being. One example of this is
From: Luella Winkler <sacrilegioush@real-time-vision.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:03 PM
Subject: hello
To: XXXXXX@XXXXXXX.ca
how are you?
To Luella and the other 54 email addresses that checked up on me...I would just like to thank all of you for caring so much and reassure you that I am quite well.
Seriously though, there is no solicitation, no attempt at phishing, and no embedded crap, just warm regards. Is this a dry run for something big to come?
UPDATE 2010-09-21: Today the same IP addresses are delivering emails with subjects such as "Deposit", "demands for payment", "schedule of bridging loan payments", and "June Voice". They each have a .html attachment and lots of bad English. I haven't had time to look into the attachment, but if any of you has, safely of course, I would love to hear what you found.
-- Rick Wanner - rwanner at isc dot sans dot org - http://rwanner.blogspot.com/
Comments
Steve
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
They're doing quite well at getting through our spam filters as well - about 60% of the emails got through.
I think Steve could be right. An innocuous email designed to evade filters and elicit bouncebacks on the invalid addresses.
However I can't see spammers ever actually removing email addresses from their lists. I have enough trouble getting email marketers to remove addresses for people who have left or died.
Rabbi
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
I agree with Rabbi. With email essentially being free why go to the cost and effort of cleaning up the list?
Rick
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
http://blog.dynamoo.com/2010/09/hello-how-are-you-mystery-spam.html
Conrad
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
Benjamin
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
Benjamin
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
Conrad
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
snowman
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
Or.. it's just a prank.
Conrad
Sep 19th 2010
1 decade ago
.. or a new spammers 101 course that people are following too literally ..
Well - either way I wish they'd all just roll over and get a proper job. I don't mind them making money, but why not deserve them?
dotBATman
Sep 20th 2010
1 decade ago