The single weirdest email I've ever received. (Spam?)

[nickgutierrez]

Subject: Re.

Sender and address omitted, for obvious reasons, though the to and from fields are not of people I know, or names I recognize, and the reply-to is the same as the "from" address. That leans me toward this possibly being a real person somehow.

"Message: (image that I didn't load) Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 18 Default beware of cambist.net First of all the answer is so slow .. by the way i got scam by cambist.net website .. they are very bad exchangers .. from 7/7/2007 i sent the money and didn't get e-gold i change LR to EG but no exchange and i sent them and they says tell us the information sent them no more respond from them , i'm no longer hear from them. I try but no answer i send them the money .. long time no answer try to contact again today i send them an email... and another order .. maybe they didn't get the email last time .. i will let u know the update but for now beware of them .. "

So, a few possibilities come to mind:

1. This is the weirdest spam advertisement for "cambist.net" that I've ever seen, or a somewhat oddly targeted and ineffective smear campaign.

2. The person writing the email is a legitimate dummy, who bought into the scam somehow. I didn't see the email this is based off of. I'm assuming it got dumped into my junk mail box, which is why it surprises me that this one got through. I guess it could be one of those cheap drugs sites, which always seemed a bit too obvious of a scam, and maybe this person really did fall for it.

3. It's the next iteration of those weird, seemingly pointless emails that just send a stream of meaningless characters, with no images, attachments, or anything that could be malicious within the email itself. This seems the most likely, with the idea being that whatever email addresses don't bounce back an error message being targets for future, more targeted spamming attempts.

Thoughts?

[Rosemary2205]

1. I say it a phishing scam

You are supposed to write back and ask "what ARE you talking about and who are you" -- then they have your email -- confirmed email addys are big business.

[nickgutierrez]

2. Yeah, that's probably it

Of course, I'm not responding, and this is going in the junk mail box the second I finish typing this response. But it sounds like a relatively new tactic - or, this is the first I've seen of it.