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[Alexander Henry]

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 at 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 at 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!
>>