On 11-10-21 1:16 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I've just received a semi clever scam letter. Not that the content is all that clever but the method of delivering the content was clever. The offer itself is similar to the Nigerian scam with the twist that you're stealing from dead South Africans. Now I want to report this to some proper authority, but all the ones I know of are asking for the text of the e-mail, copied and pasted into a web form; which is where the clever part come in. There is no text. The offer is a Jpeg attachment that looks like text. You can't copy and paste that. Short of running the image file through OCR software I'm at a loss. Anyone have any ideas?
You could try opening the raw message source, copying the entire thing (headers, MIME subsections and all) and pasting that into the form. It will all be legal ASCII, no binary. But they would have to be sophisticated enough to parse that back into a mail message, and I have serious doubts about that.
That's an interesting development. I've not yet seen a 419 spam encoded as an image. Image spam is usually employed by the really serious bulk mailers who use botnets to do their sending. 419ers are pretty much a cottage spam industry, sending them out individually. Somebody has decided to up the ante.
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