[TowerTalk] OT Be careful of returned mail

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

Normally I'd not send this to the group, but I think it has some potential 
and it came to the address I normally just use here.

I just received two returned mails apparently form a bogus address (DX ham 
call).  The subject contained a variation of our old friend's address that 
was bouncing.  In this case it was: Re: [Tower Talk] Re: Returned mail: User 
unknown geo88 at cs.com  However the start of the chain was from 1999.

The message was blank, but had an atachment. I never open atachments 
directly unless I'm expecting them, so I saved the message, then opened it 
in a text reader.  That is a 23K message in text form which is quite a few 
pages.  The original date on top is 1999 (I wasn't on TT in 1999). At any 
rate after many pages of headers from around the world (it appeared to hop 
from address to address) it turned into an HTML message with what are 
apparently hot links (you don't have to cllick on them) to many different 
sites around the world where it gets "something".

I still haven't figured the thing out as I got tired of wading through the 
HTML and a lot appears to be in German, or Dutch.

It may be benign but I'd never open it in an HTML capable reader.
I wonder if any one else received one of these and dechiphered it?

You can reply off list.

Thanks and 73

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com