Rand Spam: The World Knew, and the Spammers Did Too

Earlier this week, I was troubleshooting an issue with our mail server and found a spam email sitting there that caught my eye (especially since I posted about it 10 days ago). Rand, you captured the hearts of many women, and you even caught the attention of the spammers. For that, I thank you for making me laugh. 🙂


Spam in a CanReceived: (qmail 15223 invoked by uid 110); 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Delivered-To: [redacted] Received: (qmail 15220 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Received: from 201-x-x-x.spammer.stuff.removed.here.ar (HELO computername) (201.x.x.x)
by ip.address.not.4u with SMTP; 9 Feb 2007 12:42:40 -0500
Message-ID: <453f01c74c71$0e406913$890dd5c9@spammer.stuff.removed.here.too>
From: "Forged Name" <@[redacted-forged-header].com>
To: "Random name" [redacted] Subject: What Happened to Super Bowl's Mystery Groom?
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:40:34 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="Windows-1252";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

Spam message removed within

Well, at least it wasn’t all sysadmin work. 🙂

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