Here’s a weird email I got not to long ago. This email looks like it’s trying to pretend that I sent this person an email, but faked a failed delivery message. At least this is what I think is going on.
Either that, or someones bot it really messed up. I did a test myself and got this error message..
550 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable or not local (state 14). Maybe different email system treat error 550 differently, but this email does look fishy.
Below is the content I received.
Message could not be delivered. Error was: The mailbox is not available on this system
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
[SF:fasterhorses.us/david]
Message contents follow:
Received: from naty-8fdebe099a ([201.37.5.202]) by fasterhorses.us with MailEnable ESMTP; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:31:30 -0700
X-Originating-IP: 7[6.93.1.630]
X-Originating-Email: [david@fasterhorses.us]
X-Sender: david@fasterhorses.us
Return-Path: david@fasterhorses.us
Received: (qmail 9635 by uid 695); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:35:18 -0300
Message-Id: <20081201043518.9637.qmail@
To: “david@fasterhorses.us” <david@fasterhorses.us>
Subject: RE: Dear david@fasterhorses.us Dec 89% 0FF
From: VIAGRA ® Official Site <david@fasterhorses.us>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Importance: High
Content-Type: text/html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=us-ascii”>
</HEAD>
<BODY><a href=”http://zoqiyeg.cn” target=”_blank”>
<img src=”http://dabipif.cn/bwebon.gif” border=0 alt=”Click here to view as a webpage.”></a></BODY></HTML>