An influx of spam
Aug. 31st, 2009 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theoldwolfOver the last month or so, my mailbox has been flooded with spam from two predominant sources. One is the ever-present Canadian Pharmacy, which comes with a bunch of baysian-bypassing garbage, and then a distorted image prompting me to type "www.ba36.com" (or whatever this week's URL is) into my browser. I've seen this sort of garbage before, but for a long while Comcast managed to filter most of it out. I hope they get on top of this one.
The second is more puzzling. The headers will vary (the last one said "$1K Wal-Mart Gift Card"), but the message is usually blank, and consists only of an attached file with the following characteristics:
Named "hello recipient -re-cbhra".
The last letters change regularly.
Always 3K in size, although the actual length varies
Seem to contain random garbage, with the exception of the first characters, which are always (in HEX) "86 d9 a5 6e 87 72"
AVG Free never detects a virus in the attachment.
I've gotten 13 of these since the 10th of August, and it's just the geek in me that wonders what the purpose of these emails is...
As to the spammers... give me about 30 minutes with them, tied to chairs in a deserted hangar somewhere in the middle of Nevada... and a cattle prod.
The second is more puzzling. The headers will vary (the last one said "$1K Wal-Mart Gift Card"), but the message is usually blank, and consists only of an attached file with the following characteristics:
Named "hello recipient -re-cbhra".
The last letters change regularly.
Always 3K in size, although the actual length varies
Seem to contain random garbage, with the exception of the first characters, which are always (in HEX) "86 d9 a5 6e 87 72"
AVG Free never detects a virus in the attachment.
I've gotten 13 of these since the 10th of August, and it's just the geek in me that wonders what the purpose of these emails is...
As to the spammers... give me about 30 minutes with them, tied to chairs in a deserted hangar somewhere in the middle of Nevada... and a cattle prod.
