anybody else seen this kind of email?

7/11/03

[knak]

I got this email today, very strange. This some new weird thing going around?

Subject: Apple work for CIA. Orange work for FBI. WHO AM I ?

Dear, I no longer want to live in lies. Can you give me a favour ? I will miss you forever.

Yours truly,
Bill's most wanted.

[knak]

and no I didn't respond

[wimpycat]

I hope you didn't catch a virus from it.

[knak]

It didn't have an attachment on it. Don't you have to open an attaching file to get a virus?

[Support Free Republic]

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender comes up and says "Hey pal, what will it be?"

The horse orders a beer.

A few minutes later, John Kerry walks in and sits at the bar. The bartender walks up and says "Hey pal, cheer up. Why the long face?"

I'll stop if you guys will donate and get us over our fundraising goal

[wimpycat]

Oh, I don't know. There's no telling these days. But the e-mail is so weird, that was the first thing I thought of. If it didn't have an attachment, it's probably nothing. You do have anti-virus software, I hope, just to be on the safe side.

[knak]

running the anti virus now

[martin_fierro]

Rather than an attachment, the e-mail might have had some embedded HTML code with a 1x1 pixel graphic link.

So you can't see the graphic. But if your e-mail software automatically displays graphic links, that would tip off the sender that you opened the e-mail and could confirm to the sender that your e-mail address is valid.

[El Sordo]

Odd....

Everyone knows that you can't compare apples to oranges.

[J. Byron]

"Don't you have to open an attaching file to get a virus?"

Not if use haven't updated the default Win 98 junk:
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