Re: [Asrg] Spam (?) messages that have *nothing* in them?

[Matt Sergeant <msergeant at messagelabs.com>]

On 7 Jun 2004, at 22:03, Jim Witte wrote:

>   Has anyone else been noticing spam (I assume it's spam) messages 
> that have spoofed From headers, but have absolutely nothing in them?  
> I've gotten several that have no body, no attachments, nothing strange 
> in the headers (like embedded VBS code if that's possible).  I can 
> only assume that either something higher up cleaned out the spam body 
> and/or attachments, but wasn't smart enough to erase the entire 
> message that was now empty (unlikely I think), or that this is some 
> new tactic spammers use for an unknown reason - or maybe cyber 
> terrorists/script-kiddies who just want to do random dDOS attacks..

If it's the ones that are truncated mid-Message-Id header, then it's 
just broken ratware. Not much bounds checking or QA in the spam sending 
world.

Matt.


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