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Very weird emails generating from my site?

need help please

         

smartdog

2:34 am on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)



Does anyone else her that has their own domain get stuff similar to this type of thing?

Delivery-date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:02:52 -0400
Received: from ...<snip>... flCQgz2J XJ6 B6udZO1TL Sb4JfAbIID9xqvOyUhhm qqtx rqPnFdA aV IgKA kSasA e5p rW V0v IEKY ui˙FFFFCCabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvqxyzABCDEFGHIJKL.

Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:02:51 -0400
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=5.0
tests=NO_REAL_NAME,UPPERCASE_25_50
version=2.55
X-Spam-Level: **
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)

email content:

body: flCQgz2J XJ6 B6udZO1TL Sb4JfAbII
D9xqvOy
Uhhm qqtx rqPn
FdA aV I
gKA kSasA e5p rW V0v IEKY ui˙FFFFCCabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvqxyzABCDEFGHIJKL

I usually get these in batches of 4 emails, all kinda similar, but the from address is usually just a bit different, such as:

AWHtenOCrK@example.com
qkeLujTK@example.com

see how the first part changes, the body's of the emails are always gobbeldy gook.
It's happened twice now in the past month, no attachments.

and Norton's doesn't recognize any of them as viruses or trojans.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[edited by: heini at 9:48 am (utc) on Sep. 26, 2003]
[edit reason] removed specifics, thanks. [/edit]

heini

9:49 am on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Looks like someone is exploiting formmail.

TheDoctor

10:38 pm on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I get these and have assumed they're produced by people paid to spam, presumably on piece rates. If you have some software counting the number of spam mails you send, you can get through a lot more addresses if you just hit a few random keys rather than actually type the message.

That having been said, I received one of these a few weeks ago that included, along with the meaningless jumble of letters, the phrase "terpsicorian crcodiles", which I rather liked. In all the years I've being receieving emails, this is the only piece of spam that has made me smile.

pendanticist

10:44 pm on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Unless maybe someone using e-mail encryption [google.com] like PGP, perhaps.

Pendanticist.

DaveN

10:47 pm on Sep 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



on a weird character set which you don't have installed do you get little boxes as well.

Daven