Hello: Many of the attachments I am receiving in spam emails nowadays are identified as "type: application/octet-stream; encoding: base 64. When decoded they almost always turn out to be just plain and ordinary text/HTML files advertising a product or a service or a scam or a porn.
Does anybody know the reason why the spammers are sending me their garbage in this format? Wouldn't it make much more sense for them to encode their attachments simply as "type: text/html"? Don't the spammers realize that if the recipient thinks that the attachments really are applications or programs, then the recipient is much more likely to delete the emails and without even reading or examining the curious attachments? Why are they sending me spam email attachments encoded in this format? Inquiring minds want to know . . . Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
