<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Just now I received (with horrible Apple Mail.app) a spam message with headers<div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);">From: "Nationwide Appraisal" <accounting@noreply.com></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);">Subject: Bill Payment</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;">If only the full email address - rather than just the name - had appeared! I wouldn't have clicked on a link in the message and sold my soul to the devil, and for so little!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;">(Seriously, spam messages continue to be puzzling after all these years. The same message also included:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);">Reply-To: andrewfleech@lycos.com</p><div><br></div><div>The "Received" lines show the message started at <a href="http://mail.agrico.org">mail.agrico.org</a> and was originally from <a href="http://sv72.asakaway.net">sv72.asakaway.net</a>. Why did I have to go through the trouble of pulling down the View menu bar, select Message, then selecting Raw Source, just to see that.</div><div><br></div><div>The entire body of the message was a block of HTML so dense I didn't try to decipher it - though it included no instance of "http" and some kind of hidden box that may or may not be a link to a fake pdf of a fake fax message.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and of course I have no dealings with Nationwide Appraisal anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Challenge should you decide to accept it: Use an LLM to actually do something useful and translate header lines into a format that people without years of experience in decrypting this stuff can use to actually get some reasonable indication of message bona fides.</div><div><div> -- Jerry</div></div><div><br></div></body></html>