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 <
noreply@cox.net>
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!
>>
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