[Charlug] spammer has no clue about encryption
Pierre Abbat
phma at phma.optus.nu
Fri Jun 26 01:59:34 EDT 2009
I got a spam from someone claiming to be a soldier in Iraq. The subject line
begins "Encrypted Private Letter". The message is in plaintext,
between "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" lines. A real PGP message in plaintext
starts "BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE". "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" starts a
public key, which looks like a mishmash of letters and numbers.
Other tipoffs: it's sent to undisclosed recipients, and the From address ends
is "military.com", which exists, but isn't a domain of the military itself
(those end in ".mil").
Pierre
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