Re: Strange hidden messages in email

From: Matt Beland (matt@rearviewmirror.org)
Date: 04/26/02 

Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:41:49 -0700
From: Matt Beland <matt@rearviewmirror.org>
To: incidents@securityfocus.com

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:38:39PM -0400, Jim Cockerham wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been receiving strange emails for a few weeks from a domain in
> Korea. The return addresses are always fake msn or yahoo accounts but if
> I view the source they always come from a domain in Korea. Usually they
> are a very generic advertisement but if you view the source of the
> message they have hidden messages in them. The first one had "Mary had a
> little lamb" hidden all throughout the message, but others have different
> messages hidden in the source. They are usually addressed to my email
> account with several other CC: addresses . I don't know if there is any
> reason for concern . Below is a copy of the source from one of the messages
> , The actual message viewable in Outlook express was just a simple
> link.................

Just spam, ignore or filter it. The comments in the HTML source are an attempt
to prevent heuristic filters from blocking the Spam. 

-- 
Matt Beland
matt@rearviewmirror.org
http://www.rearviewmirror.org

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