Just like Alan said, it's phishing. I recently wrote a PERL script to make my life easier with installfest announcements. When I finished, I suddenly realized I wrote a spam-bot. I've never dealt with talking POP or SMTP before this. ALL you do is make a text file with the headers on top with the right format, like this: From: MAILER-DAEMON Subject: H4X Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:15:25 -0700 Hello World Then open a connection to Cox's (or your favorite) SMTP server, dump the text file in, and the server will believe whatever your text file says, From: fields and all. (Although if YOU saw all the headers personally, you wouldn't believe it.) You know what, I'm going to e-mail you my own phish signed with the same Cox Tech Support thing you had right now. Let us know here if you get it :) Shawn Badger wrote: > It sound like a good way to get you to become a junk emailer in my > opinion. Cox would just disable you from sending out e-mail and then > have you call support to find out why your email doesn't work. > > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 09:53 -0700, keith smith wrote: >> I'd give Cox a call and findout. They may have sent it and have >> additional info or it may be a trick and they may have additional >> info. >> >> >> >> bmike101@cox.net wrote: >> I got an email today. Please read and let me know what you >> think. I think it is not whom it purports to be because the >> attachment is not titled appropriately. I wouldn't have opened >> it anyways but just the same! >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss