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ignorantgenius | 12:21 Tue 01st Feb 2011 | Technology
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I've received a few of these in my Windows Live inbox over the past few days which reads:


This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.

[email protected]
jux.com



The email is addressed from [email protected] so I thought it may be genuine but the weird link above ([email protected]) confuses me.

There are also 2 attachments, named ATT00022.dat and ATT00024.eml; what are these attachments?

Any answers would be appreciated.
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Unless the parents of 'rm-0bxva5k5bgwr9cxau94egwf1s2wbuje' had a sense of humour, I'd say DON'T open it.
Even I wouldn't open that!
as it's a Delivery Status Notification. telling you Delivery to the following recipients failed then just ask yourself....

Have I sent an email to a [email protected]


jux.com

If the answer is no then of course it's not genuine.
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Yeah, I wasn't going to but can anyone shed some light as to how the email came from [email protected]? I've never heard of, let alone sent an email to, [email protected].
"how the email came from [email protected]"

The address any email shows as coming from (on casual checking) is typed in by the user that sent it and they can type any address they want.

If you check the header you can see the real return path and I'd bet it's nothing to do with hotmail at all.
Chuck could I grovel and ask you to look at my printer question?
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OK, thanks for your help chuckfickens.
Chuck is correct. I had hours of fun sending a friend emails appearing as though they were from Tony Blair a couple of years back.

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