I often get a blank "junk mail". It has no sender, no recipient, no subject and no text. What causes this and how can I stop it?
2006-07-26 06:16:02 · 4 answers · asked by mom_overboard 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
white on white text or a tiny gif or jpg embedded. most often used to determine if an email is valid - if you open the email it sends a "beacon" so the the sender knows the email was opened. and now your on a much more valuable spam list - a list of validated addresses. not much added value to you of course, but the spammers pay more for validated addresses.
2006-07-26 09:09:11 · answer #1 · answered by Mikal 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If It has no sender than your computer or the mail server is corrupt. If it was a legit message there would be a sender address. Are you sure that you aren't pressing "write", instead of "read".
It has happened
2006-07-26 13:24:49 · answer #2 · answered by ipndrmath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the email was probably 'scrubbed' by a virus scanner
all the bad stuff was removed.
You shouldn't open any email that you don't know the sender even blank looking email can have hidden stuff in them
2006-07-26 13:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by bava 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
may be hidden text..
2006-07-26 15:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋