petzl Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 For the past couple of months about 5% of my spam has blank TO:, blank SUBJECT, and blank BODY The "BODY" is what comes up when I do a VIEW SOURCE of the email, so the emails are sent HTML, not plain text. Why would a blank email be sent HTML? What are they testing for with these blank emails? Are others getting a fair number of these too? Should I report these as spam? They are annoying. 22057[/snapback] The "To" feild is empty if address is in "BCC" field, Subjects for email are not required There are a combination of reasons for blank email Dumb SpamWare not working Testing for bounces (dictionary attacks) Virus sent email (not always with a body) The Hijacked computer was shut down in mid spam run If in doubt do not use SpamCop to report spam however you can submit a personal report and SpamCop will give you the reporting address (In blank body type "Message Body Empty" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenUnderwood Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Then how were un-munged details posted here? To ask another way, whay unmunged data was posted here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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