Curious spam

[lovingboth]

On what ISP would http://[domain name]/inbox/mail/read.php?sessionid-29719 get you a copy of an email / nasty?

Some virus has just invited me to do this...

And today's 'share in the money obtained by fraud' spam isn't even telling me how much of the $10.5m they're going to give me as the foreign partner. I'm almost tempted to respond saying I'm not prepared to do business with such people :)

Comments

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

It's not really a link to a web site, and if you copy and paste it you get a 404, but it sems to act as a link to the attachment to the message. I don't know how it does that...

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

It's part of the multipart MIME specification - attachments are optionally referenceable by a URN. In practice no one uses inline attachments because they render incorrectly in a number of mail clients including older versions of Outlook and Pegasus Mail IIRC (OE is actually OK).