message on my cell phone

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue May 10 13:29:40 PDT 2005


In the last episode (May 10), Rosemary Robinson said:
> I got an email text message on my cell phone on 5-9-05.  
> It reads"service at freebsd.org (mailing error) This is an automatically generated E-Mail Delivery Status Notification.  Mail-Header, Mail-Body and Error Description are attached *** AntiVi    3:36am 5/0/05
> 
> What is this?  Please do not send things to my cell phone number.
> Where did you get my number?  Take it off whatever list you have it
> on.

That looks like a virus email, where the recipient was
"service at freebsd.org", and your cellphone number was forged as the
sending address.  The message bounced, and the bounce message ended up
on your cellphone.  I don't think anyone at freebsd.org was
responsible.  It's possible the sending address was randomly generated.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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