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Re: [LUG] Scam emails

 

On 11/03/14 11:08, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:46:55 +0000
> Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Neil,
>
>> That is what I thought. So what would happen, it would just sit there
>> and do nothing, or an error message perhaps? Not that it matters, I
>> have no plans to do anything with such rubbish except trash it.
> I've never done it either so can't be sure what'll happen, but suspect
> you'll see a little disk activity as the OS tries to run the program,
> and fails.  IDK what you'd see if you tried running the program from a
> shell, but reckon there's be lots of error messages.
>
>
>

If you are going to attempt to run from a shell surely you would be
betted off opening it in a text editor and seeing what it is going to
do,  I think a few of these attachments must have some sort of webby
type script in them as some seem to grab your address book for example
or connect to a remote host or so I have read.

If you have web mail (IMAP) maybe  worth booting a live cd,  then
looking at the e-mail with that,  maybe even open in a text editor and
putting the contents somewhere so people here can have a look,

If nothing else we may learn something about what these people are
trying to do.

Paul

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