I get bombarded today with spam emails

[zeus]

the text is like:

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a
binary attachment.

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The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.

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test

Download this as a file

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have any of you got alot of those, mostly from yahoo address, but those are fakes.

[zCat]

They've been doing the rounds in Europe for some time. I believe they're not spam but viruses cleverly disguised as spam. Or possibly phishing messages disguised as viruses disguised as spam. Or all three with a trojan horse keylogger as a special bonus.

I just delete them and smile serenely as I survey my homogenous home network with precisely one Windows PC which I need only because large parts of the Internet still seem to depend on this Internet Explorer thingy and I've once too many times made a slight design change to my sites which are fine in all known browsers except that one.

[Debbie_King]

Talking of spam, I get several spam emails daily which appear to consist of nothing more than a paragraph or two cut from a historical novel. (Not that I actually open them, but I can see the content of them in my anti-spam software, MailWasher Pro).

The spammers do not appear to be selling anything, don't attach anything... in fact it's just literally a couple of paragraphs of text and, as I say, it appears to be from some sort of story.

The senders are all different too (or appear to be). I really can't see what they're getting out of sending these spam messages.

Anyone else get them too?

[zeus]

Debbie - I also get those emails, I think thats a way to see if that email is active, because some would reply to those.

[Crush]

yeah, do the text to check the mails or proxies before firing up the mailer for the final blast with the message.

[inbound]

There's always the chance that the text in question is below a picture that is the real message. the text usually appears as white on white and will happily fool the spam detectors as it can be unique for each email.

I've also been getting LOADS of virus laden email recently, although I'm safe it is annoying. I think I get 30 virus emails a day (all Mytob variations).

[shigamoto]

I get lots of spam too. I've won the national sweepstake lottery a couple of times, been offered to help businessmen with a lot of money to move them (hehe) and then the customary morning mail from the World Financial Group requesting that I update my account information..