I just got a mighty strange email:
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Dear Customer, we have shipped your order. Your order information is included in the form of an attachment to this email. To view the information you can open the attached PDF-file. If additional information is needed, you may visit www.ups.com and enter the tracking number indicated in the attached file in the tracking tool. Regards arvato logistics services
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As the sender was from ms-wismo.com, using a Java Email client, routed through bertelsmann.de and telling me to look into an attached file called output.pdf to get a tracking number for an unspecified product I got really suspicious and did the following thing:
1) "Hey, that's a strange SPAM/Virus Email"
2) "Hey, that's a strange header."
3) "Ok, let's save output.pdf to somewhere safe."
4) "Let's open output.pdf with a text editor."
5) "Oh, it's really a PDF file, but it contains a stream?!"
6) "Although I think that it is probably a clever virus email, let's take a look at it with GhostView".
7) "Oh look, it's really from IREX and it's really telling me something."
8) "It will apparently arrive on July the 17th".
Puhhh, I survived it but I still don't know what number the tracking number is. Maybe I need to use a hex editor for this. Om. Seems that display technology is not the only thing that IREX is doing the totally different way. ;-)