Rick's World

I got this email yesterday: Return-Path: >gardcm23@mail.buffalostate.edu> X-Original-To: rick@ekle.us Received: from smtp.buffalostate.edu (smtp.buffalostate.edu [136.183.139.54]) Received: from mail.buffalostate.edu (unverified [136.183.13… more »

Time for yet another spam scam email analysis. This time, the scam is an emailed plane ticket. Here's the email I got: Return-Path: <bykvjypw@brainstem.com> Received: from 37-8.2-85.cust.bluewin.ch (37-8.2-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.2.8.37])… more »

The scare tactics in this email attack your pocketbook. It appears to be an email from my credit card company indicating that someone used my credit card fraudulently. Here's the body of the email: Received: from [67.158.232.43] (unknown [67.158.2… more »

Time for some more malware that uses scare tactics. Here's something I got in my email recently... Return-Path: <yjm@bossa-hashi.com> X-Original-To: rick@ekle.us Received: from 209-16-113-5.net.bhntampa.com (209-16-113-5.net.bhntampa.com [2… more »

Ok, time to discuss another malware email that I received today. I wanted to describe this so that I can help others learn to identify scam/malware emails. The body of the email is as follows: Return-Path: <monitoring@isp.com> X-Original-To… more »

Ok, this one just started showing up today. It appears to be very similar to the previous spam scam I wrote about - a compromised computer starts sending spam with links that supposedly go to one thing, but actually point to something else. See the act… more »

For the last several days, I've been receiving a new kind of spam. Below you can see a copy of the email. Following the email is my analysis of this: Subject: Member Details From: "MP3 World" <icxpw@cheshire.k12.ct.us> New Member,… more »

Lately, I've been getting a lot of emails which are completely blank. There is no body to the message and there is usually no subject. The only thing in the email is an attached PDF file, with filename that seems to vary. I've been suspecting that it'… more »

Hmm, it looks like our friends at the United States Medical Association are back. Today, I got yet another spam email from them. It was the exact same email, that I wrote about before. I had noticed, not long after I wrote that article that they ap… more »

I got an interesting spam email today. It purports to be from the 'United Stated National Medical Association'. As soon as I saw this name, I was highly skeptical. I had never heard of this 'government agency' before, so I did a quick Whois search on… more »