Re: another spam attack?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:01:52AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 08:41 GMT, john gennard penned:
> > > I'm successfully using popsneaker to knock unwanted stuff off the POP
> > > server - nothing now gets through.
> > >
> > > Looking at today's log, I see six attempted messages each with the
> > > identical size of 4194303.97KB and each from a different 'sender' were
> > > rejected (on the grounds of size).
> > >
> > > Presumably many others will have seen the same or similar. Purely as
> > > a matter of interest, does anyone know what they represent?
> > >
> > > regards, john.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 4194303.97KB .... you're getting emails that are 4 gigs big???
> >
> > --
> > monique
>
> That is what seemed impossible to me. Monique, below are just two
> messages from my popsneaker log:-
>
> ---------------------
> 2003-10-24 09:08:31] Removing mail 109:
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Message-ID:
> <PFCHBPCHLBKODDKMKCNJFBCCBEAA.andrew.melvin_hz@yahoo.co.uk>
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] From: "Andrew Melvin" <andrew.melvin_hz@yahoo.co.uk>
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] To: joney@clara.net, jojorp@clara.net, joker@clara.net,
> job@clara.net, johnsymonds@clara.net, jon.lansdell@clara.net
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Subject: Phentermine can help you suppress your
> appetite and lose weight...FAST! mam7
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:15:20 +0000
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] (D1) Reason: mail (4194303.97KB) is bigger than
> 138.36KB.
>
> ----------------------
> 2003-10-24 09:08:31] Removing mail 113:
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Message-ID:
> <AHGIIJFHNFNHPENIHDKKLPEPEGAB.auroramcClendonmi@yahoo.fr>
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] From: "Aurora McClendon" <auroramcClendonmi@yahoo.fr>
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] To: jonathanfox@clara.net, jopling@clara.net,
> joney@clara.net, jonpaver@clara.net
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Subject: Online Pharmacy - Lowest Prices - viagra and
> More! ... cs2my7
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:46:24 +0000
> [2003-10-24 09:08:31] (D1) Reason: mail (4194303.97KB) is bigger than
> 138.36KB.
> ------------------------
>
> Incidentally, there has also been a message from:-
> Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> with this subject which didn't
> make it through my filters. Could you please post it to the
> list Steve.
>
> Regards. john.
>
I sometimes get spam mail with similar subject lines. (But not that
size.) I once opened it and it was html trying to load images etc.
(But I read offline so it couldn't load anything.)
Regards
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