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rohitk89
June 6th, 2006, 17:17 PM
This is what the header of an e-mail that I received today looked like:

X-Gmail-Received: 610daa68d54d468f48add20d322720828968f080
Delivered-To: rohitk89@gmail.com
Received: by 10.48.238.4 with SMTP id l4cs111874nfh;
Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.78.43.1 with SMTP id q1mr1217451huq;
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <rohitk89@gmail.com>
Received: from UNTERMDACH.com (p50881A86.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.136.26.134])
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id 23si1326536hud.2006.06.06.09.14.45;
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 80.136.26.134 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of rohitk89@gmail.com)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:14:54 +0100
To: "Rohitk" <rohitk89@gmail.com>
From: "Rohitk" <rohitk89@gmail.com>
Subject: 557
Message-ID: <lnbeetouafxjvercmkw@gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><body>
5556

<br>
</body></html>

Any ideas? Does someone know my password or is this just spam? Note the from and to addresses. I'm certain that all my outgoing e-mail is sent under the name Rohit Kumar and not Rohitk.
tarun
June 7th, 2006, 01:57 AM
i got a similar email. it's spam.
JamesPen
June 7th, 2006, 03:11 AM
Yes same here,
Some one is trying to show us that he can type numbers.
I'm not sure he can count though...:)
JamesPen
June 7th, 2006, 03:21 AM
BTW, the spam originated from
Domain: t-ipconnect.de
Deutsche Telekom AG D-90492 Nuernberg Germany.
You can email their abuse department.
You can find the complete whois details here:
http://whois.domaintools.com/80.136.26.134
rohitk89
June 7th, 2006, 04:10 AM
Yes same here,
Some one is trying to show us that he can type numbers.
I'm not sure he can count though...:)
i got a similar email. it's spam. That's a relief. Thanks :D
JamesPen
June 7th, 2006, 04:51 AM
NP :)
Spam and email scams are realy getting out of hand...
So annoying...:(
PIPER
June 7th, 2006, 09:10 AM
If it were me.....I would set my email to accept only those folks who you trust...it will keep all the crap out and your puter much safer....jmho guys....:D
cash_site
June 8th, 2006, 05:00 AM
Email spoofing of your address book, or at least of your own email account... There are little Linux apps that allow you to set the "TO" and "FROM" email addrs... thus masking who really sent the spam... but, you were clever enough to look at the header (no-one really does) and work out it was spam...

I think this was just a test email tho, hence the random numbers... but be aware in the future, of emails from CIA or FBI etc etc... check the header, and verify the 'true' sender... like James did.

A bunch of virii might be on its way.... but that's just hearsay... ;)
rohitk89
June 8th, 2006, 15:41 PM
Apparently a lot of people have reported similar e-mails. Almost all of them have a set of numbers in the subject line followed by another set of numbers in the body. 6/6/06?
cash_site
June 9th, 2006, 00:45 AM
Yeah, there were a few stories about 6/6/06.... lol... Our train system ran ontime for the first time in 100 years?! Go figure...