email wackiness...

[ateolf]

To : [rtray38731@home.com]
Subject : Thanks For Lunch Mike biopti
Mike,


Thanks again for lunch it was great!


Best regards,

Steve

hrm...well, my email address STARTS w/ "rtra"...(???)

Comments

[harvey.livejournal.com]

That's odd... I know someone that got that same email two days ago.

?

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

does their email address start w/ "rtra"? or was it "sent to" some other email address w/ the same first few letters as theirs?

Re: ?

[harvey.livejournal.com]

Completely different... the to: address in the header wasn't even the same as my friend's email address. So it looks like a mass-mailing of some sort, but they weren't advertising anything, and I don't think there was a virus or anything attached...

Re: ?

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

if so i'm on a school computer anyway...

i was thinking it might be some kind of mass mailing, but it doesn't make much sense...[shrug]

[jadeyfish.livejournal.com]

i got that very same email today.

From: <johnkoeman@ns1.ehost2102.com>
To: <jaded@europe.com>

Mike,


Thanks again for lunch it was great!


Best regards,

Steve

In the headers, I noticed this: X-Spam-Warning: This message was accepted from a host or IP address which
is suspected of being used to distribute spam. Please see
http://www.mail.rcn.net/external/x-header/ for more information
X-Spam-Warning: [SPEWS] [1] westnetstorage, see http://spews.org/ask.cgi?S787

Sooo, my guess is it's some asshole's way of trying to get people to validate their email account to them so he can sell their address.. I think he's trying to get people replying saying "Wrong person" or someshit, and voila.. valid email address!

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

ah...that makes some sense...