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Re: Word Doc spam

by Ken A :: Rate this Message:

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Chris Santerre wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Poe [mailto:rpoe@...]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:40 PM
>> To: Kenneth Porter; users@...
>> Subject: Re: Word Doc spam
>>
>>
>> I got one of these too...
>>
>>>>> Kenneth Porter <shiva@...> 8/8/2006 8:07 AM >>>
>> --On Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:27 AM +0200 Patrick Sneyers
>> <cgpro@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Received in my .mac (basically a spam bin) account.
>>> http://www.triksys.be/docspam.jpg = screenshot of word doc attached.
>>>
>>> Neer seen this before....
>>> Is this new, or old news?
>>> 211.16.219.135 is in all kinds of blacklists though.
>> I was surprised to see one of these as well.
>>
>> I'd always thought that it would be nice for the Open Office
>> people to
>> create a simple command-line utility to convert Word files to
>> plain text
>> for spam checking. Or it could strip any macros for virus protection.
>>
>
> These seem on the rise this morning. Caught a bunch more. This one might be
> a big PITA.

Are there other subjects, or just these two:
Bill Summary - Invoice #.....
August Payment Summary, Invoice #.....
?
Ken
Pacific.Net

> I love "Right click -> Open in TextPad"
>
> --Chris
>

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