Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

In message , Kate Brown
writes
In article , dated Fri, 19 Jan
2007, "Keith (Southend)" wrote
Tony Powell wrote:
Hi,
I don't know how true it is or how deadly etc. but you should check
the following article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6278079.stm
Regards
Tony Powell

Thanks Tony for posting that on here, It's probably one we would be
tempted to open without a thought.

Indeed, and I've had several spam emails over the last few days
purporting to be snow reports from the US. The fact that the subject
titles were all in upper-case, and the senders were patently
computer-generated or had sent to spamtrap addresses, allowed me to
delete them unopened.


I've been getting those. I thought that they were just random text to
defeat spam filters and assumed that there was a payload (spam) in the
form of a GIF down the bottom.

I'm not only getting the SPAM but the delivery-failure messages as they've
spoofed my domain. Amongst the routine responses there are a few saying
something on the lines of "I'm sorry to say Joe Bloggs doesn't work here
any longer. His new e-mail address is . . . ".

Graham