OK, so I received an email today that was crytic enough to pique my curiousity, but I lack the techie skills and knowledge to decipher things completely.
The message appears to come from POTUS. The "from" in my Microsoft(R) Outlook Express inbox says "The President." The "to" line is "Jnimble11@comcast.net." I assume that I was "blind copied."
The subject is "Testy Test" and the only message text is "Attempting the Perfect Spoof."
I double clicked the "from" and it indeed appears to come from the POTUS's email address (President@whitehouse.gov). Since that exhausts the limits of my technical abilities, I'm posting more info in the "extended copy" for any tech wizards to decipher.
Curious if anyone else got a similar message or what to make of it.
I don't know if I'm late to the party on this one (was out of town on biz all last week so I had limited dKos exposure) or what. This just seemed like the sort of "War of the Worlds" explanatory message that precedes the "real news" and makes everyone forget that the "real news" is actually fake.
(I'm forwarding a copy to Kos if you want further info on it beyond the stuff in extended copy).
Under "Message Properties" the following appears for "General:"
Testy Test
"The President" <President@WhiteHouse.gov>
Type: Mail Message
Location: Bulk Mail
Size: 2 Kb
Attachments (none)
Priority: Normal
Sent: 8/3/2004 9:58 pm
Received: 8/17/2004 1:09 am
(
note: i
just received this in the morning of 8/17)
Under "Message Properties" the following appears for "Details:"
X-Message-Info: vGzX0e+ktu4ZqrNH/rt3X5ob73OlbmU9P8dywXw10qc=
Received: from mc5-f38.hotmail.com ([65.54.252.45]) by mc5-s13.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:09:42 -0700
Received: from 24.21.38.168 ([24.21.38.168]) by mc5-f38.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:09:18 -0700
Received: from Whitehouse (mail.whitehouse.gov [66.77.165.232])
by yourhost.ivylnd01.pa.comcast.net (yourcomputername) with SMTP
id <20040804025815013004psehe@yourcomputername>; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:16:59 GMT
Received: from 66.77.165.203 by mail.whitehouse.gov with ESMTP;
Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:16:59 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [66.77.165.203]
From: "The President" <President@WhiteHouse.gov>
To: <Jimble11@comcast.net>
Subject: Testy Test
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:58:21 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_NextPart_000_0005_01C479AD.5F787750"
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - mail.whitehouse.gov
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - comcast.net
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - whitehouse.gov
X-Source:
X-Source-Args:
X-Source-Dir:
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2120
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2120
Return-Path: creditupdate@ebay.com
Message-ID: <MC5-F38u6h38wCVefl90004a3b1@mc5-f38.hotmail.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2004 06:09:18.0709 (UTC) FILETIME
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Clicking the "message source" button provided the following information:
X-Message-Info: vGzX0e+ktu4ZqrNH/rt3X5ob73OlbmU9P8dywXw10qc=
Received: from mc5-f38.hotmail.com ([65.54.252.45]) by mc5-s13.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:09:42 -0700
Received: from 24.21.38.168 ([24.21.38.168]) by mc5-f38.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:09:18 -0700
Received: from Whitehouse (mail.whitehouse.gov [66.77.165.232])
by yourhost.ivylnd01.pa.comcast.net (yourcomputername) with SMTP
id <20040804025815013004psehe@yourcomputername>; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:16:59 GMT
Received: from 66.77.165.203 by mail.whitehouse.gov with ESMTP;
Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:16:59 GMT
X-Originating-IP: [66.77.165.203]
From: "The President" <President@WhiteHouse.gov>
To: <Jimble11@comcast.net>
Subject: Testy Test
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:58:21 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----_NextPart_000_0005_01C479AD.5F787750"
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - mail.whitehouse.gov
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - comcast.net
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 99] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - whitehouse.gov
X-Source:
X-Source-Args:
X-Source-Dir:
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2120
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2120
Return-Path: creditupdate@ebay.com
Message-ID: <MC5-F38u6h38wCVefl90004a3b1@mc5-f38.hotmail.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2004 06:09:18.0709 (UTC) FILETIME
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset
"iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Attempting the Perfect Spoof.
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Content-Type: text/html;
charset
"iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-/W3CDTD HTML 4.0 Transitional/EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; <br>
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2120" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Attempting the Perfect Spoof.</FONT>
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So Techie-dKosers, have at it.