empty emails???

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Eli Aran

after living with spam, unwanted publicities for Viagra and mortgage, fake
Microsoft update messages and fake undelivered messages containing virii,
I am now finding something new in my inbox:
from time to time (about once every 2 or 3 days) I get a letter from
(empty), with subject (empty) and size 1kb.
when I open such a letter, it is of course completely empty with no clue to
its origin or purpose...
does anyone know anything about this? I cannot block or blacklist them
because there is no sender or content.
is this similar to cookies trying to put their mark in my system?
thanks
 
There are some things you can do.

Message Rules for Blank To & CC, From and Subject Line:

For Blank Subject:

Box 1 - Where the Subject line contains specific words
Box 2 - Delete it from server
Box 3 - Click on the blue "Contains specific words" and Add *one at a
time*
a, e, i, o, u, y, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
Click: Options and change to: Does not contain....

For Blank From: See rule #1, and
For Blank To & CC: See rule # 2 here:
http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm

And also look at all the message rule ideas in that link. You can
send messages with no text to the Deleted Items folder, (but not
Delete from server).

See this link too:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#rules
 
BTW. Every time you post using your real e-mail address, you are
being harvested by Spammers and will receive more Spam.
Tools>Accounts>News>Properties. Change the address to a fictitious
one such as mine.
 
I use outlook express for my message groups and I was sure that you need to
supply a VALID email account for the messages to be sent because I thought
it is accounted for your HOTMAIL message sending and copied into your "sent
items" folder!
can you really send messages using a fake address???
 
Eli said:
I use outlook express for my message groups and I was sure that you
need to supply a VALID email account for the messages to be sent
because I thought it is accounted for your HOTMAIL message sending
and copied into your "sent items" folder!
can you really send messages using a fake address???
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Well of course you can! Learn the difference between Usenet and email.
Everyone (well nearly everyone) uses a fake address Hotmail has nothing
whatsoever to do with Usenet. The messages in the 'sent items box' have
nothing whatsoever to do with Hotmail - they appear there as a record of
what you've sent, no matter what you use for your address. My email address
is fake and I still post.

Please don't cross-post to every group there is. Pick two or three
*PERTINENT* groups, if you really feel that crossposting is necessary. 95%
of the groups you've crossposted to aren't relevant.
 
Eli said:
after living with spam, unwanted publicities for Viagra and mortgage,
fake Microsoft update messages and fake undelivered messages
containing virii, I am now finding something new in my inbox:
from time to time (about once every 2 or 3 days) I get a letter from
(empty), with subject (empty) and size 1kb.
when I open such a letter, it is of course completely empty with no
clue to its origin or purpose...
does anyone know anything about this? I cannot block or blacklist them
because there is no sender or content.
is this similar to cookies trying to put their mark in my system?
thanks
Click to expand...
The best way to escape Spammers is to immediately change your E-mail
Address! You apparently used a real address in your post so they will
harvest it yet again. I would suggest you switch your Web based E-mail
possibly to Yahoo Mail or Googles G-Mail for a while, at least..
 
Miss said:
Well of course you can! Learn the difference between Usenet and email.
Everyone (well nearly everyone) uses a fake address Hotmail has
nothing whatsoever to do with Usenet. The messages in the 'sent items
box' have nothing whatsoever to do with Hotmail - they appear there
as a record of what you've sent, no matter what you use for your
address. My email address is fake and I still post.

Please don't cross-post to every group there is. Pick two or three
*PERTINENT* groups, if you really feel that crossposting is
necessary. 95% of the groups you've crossposted to aren't relevant.
Click to expand...

Your Newsgroup E-mail address could be (e-mail address removed) or anything else
that is not real. Most just modify the real one slightly. Here is a good
tutorial on setting up Outlook Express for use to view these Newsgroups:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
 
In
Eli Aran said:
can you really send messages using a fake address???
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On newsgroups, of course! Most of us do it all the time. Please
note that (e-mail address removed) is not a real address.

I do it for two reasons: so as not to get my address harvested by
spammers, and because I don't want to get private E-mail in reply
to newsgroup postings.
 
You can create a rule for an empty message body. Do it the same as
the Subject rule but select Where the message body contains specific
words, and change the action to Delete It & Stop processing more
rules, as the message has to be downloaded before the rule can see
that it is blank.

As far as the purpose, I don't know.
--
Bruce Hagen
~IB-CA~




Eli Aran said:
thank you all for your replies!
one more question:
this original post came from my being curious about getting EMPTY EMAILS. no
from, no subject and no letter content. just 1 kb messages.
what is the purpose of the spammer this time?
why would anyone bother sending me occasionally these (apparently useless)
empty letters? do they hide some malicious activities like cookies might?

Gene K said:
relevant.

Your Newsgroup E-mail address could be (e-mail address removed) or
Click to expand...
anything
Click to expand...
 
thank you all for your replies!
one more question:
this original post came from my being curious about getting EMPTY EMAILS. no
from, no subject and no letter content. just 1 kb messages.
what is the purpose of the spammer this time?
why would anyone bother sending me occasionally these (apparently useless)
empty letters? do they hide some malicious activities like cookies might?
 
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