pwhittle

does any else keep getting Tora Tora Tora Tora emails?
They seem to refer to a company floatation, but don't make any sense. They have all the random words spam emails seem to use to somehow fool spam filters (it works here), and appear to be scanned copies of print-outs.
The last one included in it's random words, Subaru, rally, and dead co-driver, which made me think breifly if it was targetted.

We're getting loads if these, but I can't work out what, if any purpose they have. There's no link, they don't seem to contain a virus.

Our corporate spam filter just takes out the Viagra emails ("Do you want to be real man?", "Please her all night long" - presumably to do with late night shopping that one!)

Is it a way of checking which of the randomly generated email addresses you have are valid, by using delivery receipts? Something melcious? Or someone with far too much time on their hands?!

David Lock

Yes

But Norton shoves most of them into the Spam folder.

Nicks VR4

This is a typical pump-n-dump stock scheme just like the image-based spam that we are all so tired of. If it feels like you've seen a dramatic rise in this category of spam over the past few weeks you are not alone. eWeek has a pretty good article about it, and there's a lively debate about it over on Slashdot.

Robin Pikey

I used to get get emails like that so I dumped the email account because I got fed up with it Spam is totally pointless in my eyes.