I think it likely that Art didn't actually send that email.
It looks like it might be a malware transmission message whose malware
payload was stripped by the mailing list software. Either that, or an
address harvesting thing from a spammer. Possibly both.
This is based upon the fact that the subject is generic "How are you
doing" and the body asks for a favor, without explaining what the favor
might be. I would normally expect "can you do me a favor" to be in the
subject while a description of the favor itself to be in the body of the
message. If you're sending an email to a mailing list, you are
generally encouraged to put the actual favor itself in the original
message because you don't know who will respond to it, so people need to
know what you need in order to know if they're the one who should
respond. Also, I get tons of emails that say they're from person X
while the response goes to somewhere else and the person, when asked
about it, says they never sent the message.
In the original message, the sender address is Art's real address (at
least, it's the same address as one he used in April of last year to
talk about the baseball game) but the reply-to address is different,
going to outlook.com instead of sbcglobal.net
Anyway, if it isn't a bogus message, I'd like to be corrected. Keeping
track of the technology that sends out bogus emails is kind of a hobby
of mine.
On 1/16/2018 11:57 AM, Bob Tomlinson via BVARC wrote:
What do you need Art? Remember that I am 2000 miles away.
On Jan 16, 2018 12:50 AM, "Arthur Caprio via BVARC" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi there
Can you do me a favor ?
Thanks,
Art Caprio
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