I just recently received a run of spam which would push some system's scan-size
limit. These messages have a very short text part and consist mostly of an
attached image file. The file is a gigantic 2952 x 3937 pixel jpeg that is
774,568 bytes in binary form, making for a base-64 encoded email over 1 meg.
Some of you using spamc or other tools with size limits might want to bump up
your size limits. (the relay shows up in spamcop currently)
More amusing than the fact that the oversized image is tough to view on a PC,
the spam seems to be advertising local stores by their street addresses, and
appears to be in Guatemala. That's a long way to go to buy shoes from Maryland,
USA.
For anyone interested, here's some headers and a bit of body off one:
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from gold.guate.net (gold.guate.net [200.12.63.200] (may be forged))
by xanadu.evi-inc.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j56HW51U016177
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO)
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 13:32:07 -0400
Received: from usuario-hyhaya5 (ip-50-221.guate.net.gt [200.12.50.221] (may be
forged))
by gold.guate.net (8.12.9/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j56I2Opg020328
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:02:24 -0600
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "top shoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: nueva linea de verano
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:31:53 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_1796513849613620103153874"
Status:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_1796513849613620103153874
Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
adquiere los ultimos estilos de verano
------=_NextPart_1796513849613620103153874
Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="volante 8 mujer verano.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: volante 8 mujer verano.jpg
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="volante 8 mujer verano.jpg"
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