>On Thursday, October 25, 2018, 7:00:00 AM GMT+2, Mark London <m...@psfc.mit.edu> wrote: > >I started getting very short emails, such as "How are you?" or "please. >can we talk please?" Ok, maybe the latter one is a bit suspicious. >But in any event, has anyone encountered "small talk" spam emails like >this before? I have this big desire to respond and say "No, I'm not >fine, and we can't talk". But I doubt that will resolve the issue. :) >I'm just curious if anyone else has encountered this. Thanks. - Mark
Hi Mark... usually flushing a normal toilet in zero-gravity is not a good idea, but this time may be different.. Answer to that email and see what happens. That will give you the chance to observe how the spammer/hacker behaves.... It is not easy to block emails just becasue they contating a "how are you?" sentence. But in case any user replays, it may beeasier to detect the second spammer email... far from perfect but a good FP/FN balance. -----PedroD
