Pointless Spam Message

Why would anyone even bother to send this?

[MatthewHSE]

I just got what I'm sure is a spam message, allegedly from Napster Support. There was no attachment, the message was in plain-text, and here's all the message said:

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This is obviously spam, but why go to the trouble of sending it to me? There's no virus, no porn, and it's not selling anything. What's the purpose of such a weak spam message?

[edited by: Woz at 6:33 am (utc) on April 23, 2004]
[edit reason] no email quotations please, see TOS#9 [/edit]

[PCInk]

Somebody has either used you email address for a query to them. Or, they could have been sent some spam or a virus with your address as the return address - what you have gotten back is the autoresponder.

[ControlEngineer]

It may have been a virus on someone else's computer. That person had both napster support's e-mail address and your address in an address book. The virus sent a message to napster and forged your address as the "reply to" address. Then you got the auto-reply from napster.

I get a few of these. Yesterday I received an out-of-office auto reply from someone I worked with, but had not sent e-mail to. Someone who had both the person that was out of office and me in his address book got hit by a virus.

[vrtlw]

Have you checked the source of the email, could it have an embedded graphic, even a 1x1 transparent image. Perhaps they are sniffing for active email accounts?