Monday, March 21, 2005

First Round Of GMail Spam

I opened my inbox this morning to see an email that's obviously spam. The subject line was "Apply for the Job" and the sender's name was "Job Manager". Since I'm not applying for any jobs and I know nobody that goes by the name of "Job Manager" and I'm not a member of any email distribution groups named "Job Manager" I knew it had to be spam. So like everyone else, I clicked on the email to view it in the preview pane. Here's what the email said...

My First Spam Email From A Google GMail Account

You are tired of searching a job? You want to have financial stability and you want to be sure about your future and a future of your family? That job will suite all your needs. In order to apply for that job you need to have to be older then 22. Honest and responsible. Also you need to have a basic computer and financial and accounting knowledge. If you are interested please email your resume to freakingspammer@Imatotalspammer.ru and I will email you with the job details. It is possible to use as a part-time job. Basic salary is 2500$ a month. After 3 months of successful work you can earn up to 5000$ a month.

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Now I'm sure the last line is just a unique string of text so GMail doesn't automatically flag this email as spam before it even leaves it's smtp servers. But the first paragraph is where they're setting up the crap they're trying to push. I removed the email address they put in the email cause I don't want to give them any free publicity but if any of you want it just post a comment here and I'll email it do you.

This email was received from sample.job@gmail.com. Linking to the email wouldn't harm them any since they're not going to be checking the email since it's just a shell account they're using to send email, not receive it. But I'm wondering how many emails were sent through this account. You'd think that if it was a high quantity then gmail's spam sending traps would be tripped but who knows.

GMail Spam Header Information

Return-path:
Received: from postoffice.cniweb.net (postoffice.blockedoutserver.net [208.218.214.5])
by postman.blockedoutserver.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9)
with ESMTP id <0IDO00DP4JB9CP@postman.blockedoutserver.net> for
myemail?globalpromoter.com@sims-ms-daemon
(ORCPT rfc822;myemail@globalpromoter.com); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:09:09 -0500 (EST)
Received: from built-like-a-brick-shithouse.com ([61.254.53.254])
by postoffice.blockedoutserver.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j2L1pNhw017683 for
; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:51:30 -0500 (EST)
Received: from gmail.com (gsmtp171.google.com [64.233.171.27])
by built-like-a-brick-shithouse.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7435D5E1A8 for
; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:07:03 -0800
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:07:03 -0800
From: Job Manager
Subject: Apply for the job
To: Jason
Message-id: <101101c52dcb$a539c8e3$65736a55@gmail.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000
Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 1
X-MSMail-priority: High

From that header information it appears the email did in fact come from Google's GMail servers but I'm not an email expert so I'll leave that up to you guys to explain. As always, comments are welcome.

Posted By Jason Dowdell at 10:49 AM
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