Suspicious mail

Matthew Carpenter matt
Mon May 17 11:32:07 PDT 2004


I would hope you'd be safe enough openning it in OpenOffice (You're using
Mutt, so I'm assuming some flavor of Unix...)

On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:45:09 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> I just got the oddest mail from someone I don't know.  Not the
> usual spam, either.  Here are the main headers
> 
> > From: donnagrove23 <donnagrove23 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Cellspacing
> >  
> > Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> >         name=Reso Certification Form.doc
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> There follows only the encoded data of what may be a Word document.
> The subject of cellspacing would usually have a slight interest
> for me, but I have no idea what a 'Reso Certification' might be.
> 
> Anybody else seen this?  If so, you should probably ditch it,
> but I'm a bit curious.   Not enough to unpack this thing, but
> curious anyway.



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