713178 - New spammer tactic /multipart/mixed; and base64

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[Bill Jefferys]

Attachment: ABOUT YOUR PAYMENT FROM UNITED NATION OFFICE(READ ATTACHMENT FOR DETAILS).eml

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Received spam, tried to report it to [e-mail] (using "forward")


Actual results:

The headers were forwarded, but the actual message was not.

I copied-pasted the actual message to the end of the message.


Expected results:

The actual message should have been attached to the end of the forwarded message.

My concern is that the spammers have figured out a way to prevent reports to ISPs having enough information to kill the addresses that are being abused. 

The attached file is what I got; I am saving the email I got in case this is not complete.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to Bill Jefferys from comment #0)
> My concern is that the spammers have figured out a way to prevent reports to
> ISPs having enough information to kill the addresses that are being abused. 

hearder should be enough for ISPs to work with. This looks like a duplicate - but I don't have the bug on the top of my head.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Removing myslef on all the bugs I'm cced on. Please NI me if you need something on MailNews Core bugs from me.