Blank e-mails

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Thank you very much for the additional information. I really do appreciate
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Here is one I got today. It came to a old geocities address (xxxx
out) that is equated to a yahoo address after Yahoo bought out
geocities.

X-Apparently-To: (e-mail address removed) via 216.109.117.228; Sun, 22 Feb
2004 19:33:21 -0800
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from 66.130.127.233 (HELO
modemcable233.127-130-66.mc.videotron.ca) (66.130.127.233) by
mta132.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:33:17 -0800
Received: from 132.164.224.206 by 66.130.127.233; Mon, 23 Feb 2004
04:32:56 +0100
Message-ID: <N[20
Content-Length: 0
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I looked at the e-mails from my ISP webmail & here are the results:
Date Sender Subject Size
31/12/1969 18h00 N/A N/A [ read ] 568
31/12/1969 18h00 N/A N/A [ read ] 562
 
Hi Trog,

Trog Dog said:
Hi Jan

They could be an attempt to verify that your email address is actually
valid. By having no from,subject or body they will bypass most spam filters
except those that work by analysing the IP addresses in the headers.

Additionally, by not being flagged as spam - those filters that do analyse
the IP addresses, won't flag that IP as a spam source because the message
isn't "spam".
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You could be right. I just found out via another forum that one responder
on this subject actually found text in the From and Subject lines, but, it
was white text on a white background. And it only showed up after they
highlighted it and changed the text color. Pretty clever. That is why it was
still getting past their Rules. But, I checked the ones I have, and there is
no text at all, at least, none that is showing up in any way. I am still
getting them alphabetically. I'm into the K's now.

Jan :)
 
If there is an attachment in the email it is probley a VIRUS
If possable scan the email with your virus protechtion.
 
Hi Travis,

Travis said:
If there is an attachment in the email it is probley a VIRUS
If possable scan the email with your virus protechtion.
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No..there's never any attachment. All that shows up in the inbox on the line
is just the unopened message icon and the date at the other end. In looking
at the details, there is nothing much to them. Someone mentioned in a post
in another forum regarding this same topic, that perhaps the ISP's are
cleaning them. Well, that might be, but, would they strip the From,
Subject, and other stuffiing out of it along with deleting any attachment
that might have been with it? Not to say that this might not be possible,
'coz I really don't know what method Cox might use to clean mail, if in fact
they do. But, I have had 50 of them since 8:00a this morning, compared to
10-15 a day in the past week or so. My AV is not throwing up any warnings as
it usually does for viruses and moves it to the Vault, although, it might be
something else that's floating around.

Jan :)
 
Hi Geese,



Do you have a Yahoo account too? I truly don't mean to pry, I ask only
because someone in another forum mentioned they got some of these as well,
but did not mention where they came from. I use Cox Cable, and /all/ of the
ones I am getting are from a cox.net origin as well. I was trying to see if
there is a pattern for these being targeted to people who use the same
providers before I contact Cox to look into it. I believe there are also
some out there from Hotmail to Hotmail accounts as well.

Thank you very much for your time and information, I really do appreciate
it.

Jan :)
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I'm on comcast and get several of these a day. They appear to come
from cox.net to me. I e-mailed (e-mail address removed) with all of the header
info for their info.

I.Care
 
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