Weird StopKaz Email

[RSLancastr]

I received an odd email on my StopKaz account last night.

The first odd thing is that it was "spoofed" so that it appeared to have come from my StopKaz account to itself.

The subject line was a six-digit number.

The body of the email was just a four-digit number.

Any thoughts as to what the purpose of this was?

Was it just a test to see if it bounced?

 

[andycal]

Just heard from someone else on another forum is having a similar problem. Current thoughts are that it's a virus on the mail server. I'll keep you posted.

 

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, andycal.

 

[alfaniner]

I got the same type of thing yesterday, but not at the email I use for this membership. Weird.

 

[Steve]

I had the same thing when I opened my email at work this morning. Subject was a 6 digit number, the body of the email was empty. It appeared that I had sent this to myself!?

 

[Terry]

yup, it looks like it comes from you unless you read the full headers. I got one at work. I just deleted it.

 

[Oleron]

Anyone know any more detail on this one? Many of my users have received something similar. My filters are letting it past and it doesn't appear to be malicious.

 

[andycal]

Only thing to report is that I know of more people getting them and no real indication where from.

The headers seem to originate from a domain that doesn't exist. Keeping my ear to the ground...

 

[Banbury]

Maybe the purpose is just to waste someones bandwith. It's possible to abuse a mail server to send spam. This damages the owner of the mail server even though the mails themselves are not malicious.

 

[Lothian]

I got the same from my bigfoot forwarding account.

 

[BPSCG]

Test, probing for weaknesses?

 

[Oleron]

Test, probing for weaknesses?

In which case I have been probed and found wanting...

 

[JamesM]

Incompetent programming?

 

[Angus McPresley]

I got the same exact thing, on a gmail account.

 

[BenK]

I haven't gotten on myself but F-Secure has a little blurb on it
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-062006.html#00000894

 

[The_Fire]

REminds me of when one of my redirects send me an email from myself with a commercial for.......

Viagra

Apparently they thought that a fan club with an average age of 16 were in need of ....erhm....help......

ETA: YAY! I found out how to work the spoiler tags!

 

[kevin]

It's easy to forge who a message is from, but check the full message headers for the path the message followed. It probably didn't originate from your own mail server.

Many spammers will forge a message being from the destination address because many spam filters automatically let messages from yourself through (although to be honest I haven't seen this configuration in years).