From owner-freebsd-security Sun Feb 20 22:56: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.uunet.ca (mail6.uunet.ca [142.77.1.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971F137BFE7 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 22:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca ([216.95.146.6]) by mail6.uunet.ca with ESMTP id <231124-12077>; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:55:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:55:44 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: FreeBSD-SECURITY Subject: Re: Strange Spam Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is funny, reading it more carefully - there are also references to DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), UHF (Ultra High Frequency), and Interpol. Also, Mathematic is mispelled to "Mathematik" which strikes me as odd, giving the caliber of words used throughout the message. Another thing to note, is the capitalization scheme; It appears that proper nouns and places are for the most part capitalized, with some exceptions such as "cynthia", "sarah1", and a few others. All and all, this is nothing but pure conjecture, but it does almost totally rule out the possibility of it being some random misplaced SPAM email. It definately has the form of being intended for someone. Unfortunately, without figuring the key sequence that this is based on, it's probably impossible for us to decypher it. My original question still stands. If this is some kind of code, why would someone do something like this as opposed to PGP encryption or similar? -- Or both combined for the very paranoid. Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message