International spam: Faking Great Britain from Russia via Egypt

A spam I received -- or didn't fully receive, really -- early this morning. Examining the headers, it seems to have been sent from a connection in Russia to a mail relay at Mercedes-Benz in Egypt, which helpfully removed the payload before passing it on to me. The spammers were so diligent that I received two other intact copies sent via other relays. Responsible parties have been notified!

Parts of this item were removed by GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP because they breached the security policy of the sending email server. Threat report text/html Kaspersky detected Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen in email body

A final irony, given that I got this message because the Mercedes mail server was open enough to relay the message from Russia to me, is that the message I sent to notify them of the problem bounced back -- with an "unable to relay for postmaster" message.

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November 3rd, 2008