Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / December 2003

Today's SPAM collection included the follwing two masterpieces:
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Thanks for your registration.
( We say Sorry again, the first mail was delivered to an unknown mail
address.
This was a bug in our mailing system! )

The amount of 239.- USD was deducted by your account.

Welcome,
you can now visit more than 1200 very very hot web pages!
Your registration, pages and passwords are transferred in the
attachment.

enjoy
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=yourregistration.bat
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="yourregistration.bat"
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by
law.

We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP
172.204.131.199 . The
contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will
be indicated.
In the next days, you'll get the charge in writing.
In the Reference code: #24251, are all files, that we found on your
computer.

The sender address of this mail was masked, to fend off mail bombs.
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And:
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- You get more detailed information by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation -FBI-
- Department for "Illegal Internet Downloads", Room 7350
- 935 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Washington, DC 20535, USA
- (202) 324-3000
Attachment converted: Never say die:refcode24251.txt.exe (bina/mdos)
(0003A14A)
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Remembering that curiosity was purportedly guilty in the death of a
cat,I trashed the two attachments without opening them and then sent the
messages off to SpamCop.

Is this something that has become common? Worse, my ISP delivered these
emails despite the fact that the address used was one I had  fabricated
and thus incorrect. How can this happen?

I am mpurposely crossposting this message.