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Bogus email
2006-01-09, 12:36 PM #1
I received an email today... containing the following message!

Quote:
Hello,

We are very sad to say that over the New Year the Campus was subjected to
several acts of mindless vandalism. As well as bricks being thrown through
windows, several members of staff have reported their cars as being the
subject of practical jokes. Some of these cars were filled with water whilst
others had graffiti daubed across them. We have uploaded the pictures of the
graffiti here [URL REMOVED BY MOI] in the hope that someone
may recognise the culprits work. If anyone can shed any light on this unfortunate
incident could they please contact the main office as soon as they have time.



Many Thanks & Best Regards,

Professor Robert Gordens
Yale




"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="disc.txt
"

dGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbWFpbA==


I haven't applied to or expressed any interest in attending Yale... Etc, etc, basically what I'm getting at is that this email seems like complete bull****. What do y'all think? Anyone received anything similar? I just dont' know what the purpose of the email is, but the link I edited out was to a blank.home.comcast address... with an odd name ... similar to 'playfunpiano'... ??? I'm assuming that the email is junk/spam, or that the link is virus laden, b/c why in the hell would a Yale professor upload the pics in the first place, that just adds notoriety to the crime, and secondly, why at such a stupid-assed site like that?

Thoughts?
2006-01-09, 12:47 PM #2
Maybe the picture in the link carries a wmf exploit?

*shrug*
2006-01-09, 1:07 PM #3
Yeah. I think F-secure webblog mentioned that email or one very similar to it, and it was indeed the wmf exploit thing behind the url. Although the website had a backup of a trojanloader using a flaw in old Firefox versions, as well.

F-secure apparently checked if such a professor exists in Yale, and, surprise surprise, he was nowhere to be found.
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2006-01-09, 2:32 PM #4
If we spell the name backwards we have the culprit! look! Snedrog Trebor!... maybe he's like... French.
2006-01-09, 3:00 PM #5
Nice catch, gulsrebu!
2006-01-09, 3:03 PM #6
Your humor is redundant, suporebas.

o.0
2006-01-09, 5:08 PM #7
If you decode the base64 at the end of the email you get "this is an email".
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2006-01-09, 5:29 PM #8
some people are remarkably gulible.
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2006-01-09, 5:50 PM #9
Who?

Do you know of anyone who went for it?
2006-01-09, 6:13 PM #10
Originally posted by Greenboy:
Your humor is redundant, suporebas.


Haha. Yobneerg. Hahaha. :D
DO NOT WANT.
2006-01-09, 6:21 PM #11
Llez, that's a good one -_-.
2006-01-09, 6:24 PM #12
Enitnelav Tnecniv
2006-01-09, 6:31 PM #13
That sounds russian.
DO NOT WANT.
2006-01-09, 7:06 PM #14
revolkowe
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
2006-01-09, 8:32 PM #15
naf-GS

A car maybe???

Oh, and I got the e-mail too, but deleted it after a half second thought "why would they send this to me... must be fake... Ohh, lookie pictures *click*" Ha, gotcha, you thought I clicked the picture but noo. I clicked delete :p
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2006-01-09, 9:16 PM #16
The Norse warlord Rema Erdraf concurs: bogus indeed.
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