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The spam like this via Yahoo! seems to have stopped. Received a very similar spam email on 9th February. Just one URL, no other content. The URL if fetched (carefully), redirects to some sort of health site: http://naturalhealth-care.com/ With what looks like an affiliate link. I didn't try other user agents, but previously such redirect networks have sometimes downloaded malware. Recipient list includes people I know, and some people I don't, I'm guessing all plundered from one individuals address book. I've, unusually for me, taken a guess at whose email address book was plundered (it was most likely the alleged senders address book) and dropped them a note. The email however was sent via Orange France (sigh), with the prior received header suggesting sender was in Thailand, using a @btinternet.com address (probably only Orange France is liberal enough in their email policy to forward on such an obviously fake message). Would hazard a guess, the same spammers as Yahoo!, different methodology. Or someone copying the model closely. I don't immediately know if the alleged sender is in Thailand, which might reduce it to a simple Microsoft Windows virus that used the wrong sender settings and got lucky, but seems unlikely. I guess probably a relief for Yahoo! if the folk have moved from Yahoo, may mean that Yahoo! have finally fixed (or effectively mitigated) the issues they had. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq