I found two such messages in my mail box today. Here is the text: ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, 2004-01-26 20:41 Subject: Mail Transaction Failed
> Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available. > > The above one had no attachment, but the below one had a aczzzgm.com attachment, that when I clicked on the mail itself, not on the attachment, it wanted to save a ATT001.wav file to the "My documents" folder. ----- Original Message ----- From: Postmaster To: inet recipient Sent: Monday, 2004-01-26 09:16 Subject: Failure Report This is the qmail program Undeliverable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message follows: These have been appearing in my main account on and off for a couple of weeks now. I usually don't open them but delete them right away. I am running up-to-date antivirus software, which has not alerted me that these mails contain a worm or virus. However, I have not clicked on the attachment to open them, so maybe it won't warn me unless I do. Is this what you are getting? Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Ackerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2004-01-26 20:14 Subject: [USMA:28406] Re: Scam? > On Jan 26, 2004, at 19:50, Bill Hooper wrote: > > > I have received a significant number of "undelivered mail" messages, > > all with mysterious techno-gibberish, and none of which bore any > > resemblance to any email I had sent out. Each had a single attachment. > > To me that seems suspicious. > > After breaking into somebody's computer, a spammer sends emails to a > list of random addresses (Rumpelstiltzkin attack) with a fake return > address. The messages bounce, and the bounce message is undeliverable, > causing it to be bounced to your postmaster alias. The attachment is > probably a worm that constitutes the trespass of step 1 above. > > -- > Brad Ackerman N1MNB "The Chinese Bill of Rights isn't worth > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28 42 17 N the acetate it's not printed on." > PGP: 0x62D6B223 81 23 28 W -- Penn Jillette > >
