Re: Strange E-Mail WAS: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This?

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Carsten Becker @ work wrote:
>
>> Some days ago, I got an email from Thomas R. Wier
>> (trwier@uchicago.edu was
>> in the "name" field), it was also a bit strange. However, the title was
>> "Re:
>> Here" and the content was just "Read this!". A .PIF file was attached (I
>> forgot its name). Because PIF's are executables, I did *NOT* download
>> the
>> attachment and immediately deleted that suspicious file.
>
>
> Quite right too. I've recently received two similar mails supposedly from
> Messrs Cowan and Elzinga with such attachments. I've also received a
> message saying that I mail sent (with, of course, a suspicious
> attachment)
>  to Philip Jonsson couldn't be delivered. The strange thing is that I
> sent
> no such email in te first place!

Same with myself.  Apparently I was trying to send an email to John, but
I hadn't.  This is rather suspicious.  I was worried that I had a virus
at first, but it turns out I don't, so it's odd.