I assumed it was when I got the reply. Tell Art hello for me when you see him.
On Jan 16, 2018 1:32 PM, "Jonathan Guthrie via BVARC" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it likely that Art didn't actually send that email. > > It looks like it might be a malware transmission message whose malware > payload was stripped by the mailing list software. Either that, or an > address harvesting thing from a spammer. Possibly both. > > This is based upon the fact that the subject is generic "How are you > doing" and the body asks for a favor, without explaining what the favor > might be. I would normally expect "can you do me a favor" to be in the > subject while a description of the favor itself to be in the body of the > message. If you're sending an email to a mailing list, you are generally > encouraged to put the actual favor itself in the original message because > you don't know who will respond to it, so people need to know what you need > in order to know if they're the one who should respond. Also, I get tons > of emails that say they're from person X while the response goes to > somewhere else and the person, when asked about it, says they never sent > the message. > > In the original message, the sender address is Art's real address (at > least, it's the same address as one he used in April of last year to talk > about the baseball game) but the reply-to address is different, going to > outlook.com instead of sbcglobal.net > > Anyway, if it isn't a bogus message, I'd like to be corrected. Keeping > track of the technology that sends out bogus emails is kind of a hobby of > mine. > > On 1/16/2018 11:57 AM, Bob Tomlinson via BVARC wrote: > > What do you need Art? Remember that I am 2000 miles away. > > On Jan 16, 2018 12:50 AM, "Arthur Caprio via BVARC" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> Can you do me a favor ? >> >> Thanks, >> Art Caprio >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BVARC mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >> Message delivered to [email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing > [email protected]http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > > > -- > Jonathan Guthrie KA8KPN > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Message delivered to [email protected] > >
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