[ale] OT new spam approach

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> In the last two days I've received two different spam emails that 
> requested receipts.  How many foolish folks will click ok???
> 

I just got something a bit tricky, too. It was a harmless-looking
message with an attachment called "AnalogPhones.txt." I was curious
as to the real motive, so I saved the attachement as a file - and
it actually turned out to be called "AnalogPhones.txt<250 spaces>.pif".
I've never seen that particular ploy before; is this a well-known
thing?

Cheers,

-- Joe



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