On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, John Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Alex wrote:
Microsoft outsourcing their tech-support that badly? I don't think so.
Right, that was my point. The sender is not one of my trusted users, yet
the link in the body seems legit.
So what's the point of this spam? Just a misconfigured machine somehow?
That's a really good question.
Perhaps it was a malware attempt and the attacker forgot to replace the valid
MSFT URL with their own URL...
This isn't the first time I've seen ratware malfunction. Other possibility
some scammer test-driving a shiny new toy but wants to first test it out with
out drawing attention to himself, so doesn't do a live-fire test.
IE wants to fine-tune the deliverability before the live-fire pass.
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