[SC-Help] Re: What it is?

[Kenneth Brody]

"Jan M. Nelken" wrote:
> 
> I am getting series of Penny stock spam into my Lotus Notes in-basket. It
> appears that payload is an attached gif which Lotus Notes is "auto-opening" -
> but this "auto-open" only happens on this kind of spam.
> 
> In one part I found this term: SRC="cid:OK64699DVVC at texas.net". What does
> it mean?

That is probably part of an <img> tag, and it means that the image is an
attachment to the e-mail.  The "cid:" part identifies the attachment based
on the identifier that follows.  I believe that one of the attacments will
have something like "Content-ID:" within it which matches the ID.

While Lotus may "auto-open" it, you can at least be assured that it is
grabbing the image from the e-mail itself, rather than using a "web bug"
off the 'net, which may uniquely identify you to the spammer.

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