[CQ-Contest] Fishy E-Mail from ARRL Contest Robot

[Ted Sarah - W8TTS]

Nat,

I think your 100% correct that this is a "victor india radio uniform 
sugar".  I've had a couple of them trapped by my ISP today, they send 
a messages saying that they did, and they contained the 
"LUETUT.XLS.pif" file.

I think someone has found a way to feed a "victor india radio uniform 
sugar" this way.  So, just be careful.

73 - Ted - W8TTS

Nat Heatwole wrote:
> Fellow contesters,
> Today I received an e-mail from the name "ARRL Contest robot" that was
> titled "UNABLE TO PROCESS LOG SUBMISSION." The text of the e-mail went
> as follows:
> 
> "(This is an automatic reply.)
> 
> Your message to dxphone at arrl.org could not be processed because it
> did not contain a callsign in the email Subject: header.  Please
> resubmit your log to dxphone at arrl.org with an email Subject: header
> that looks like this"
> 
> The e-mail had an attachment that was titled "LUETUT.XLS.pif" that was
> 72.3 KB large. I found this e-mail quite odd as I did not submit a log
> for the past ARRL DX Phone nor did I make any contacts in the contest on
> either mode. I hit the reply button to determine who the message really
> came from and Outlook Express listed the sender as
> unreplyable at alum.mit.edu. I would be willing to bet that the attachment
> that came with this e-mail is a victor india radio uniform sugar (I
> don't know if CQ-Contest will automatically bounce messages that have
> that work in them, hence when I am spelling it out) or something equally
> mischivious. Norton, however, did not raise a complaint regarding the
> message.
> 
> The e-mail message was also sent to many other parties including many
> contesters currently subscribed to this list (WN6K, WM5R, K1TTT, NQ4I,
> KR7X, K4OJ, WD4AHZ, KR6X, W7WHY, WW3S, among others). I don't know what
> this message is all about, but I would encourage anyone who gets this or
> a similiar message to delete it immediately. There was a thread on the
> PVRC reflector recently about fishy e-mails coming from a supposed "ARRL
> robot" and this message may well be part of the same clan. Whatever this
> is, it's no normal victor india radio uniform sugar; it came from
> someone familiar with contesting, contesters, and CQ-Contest, perhaps
> even someone subscribed to CQ-Contest and I felt that everyone on the
> list should be made aware of this.
> 
> 73, Nat, WZ3AR
> <nat at ajheatwole.com>
> 
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