Xtra Email Making the Rounds - Something's Coming

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#12071 26-Feb-2007 21:15

We're not with Xtra, but we get all our email forwarded on to us. Today at 5.05pm we got an email that says (word for word)

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yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy             XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

SOMETHING’S COMING…

Keep an eye on your inbox. Something good is about to happen.

What on earth is this about? Something's coming and my bet is that they're talking about ADSL2+.

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#62046 26-Feb-2007 21:18

Their choice of ASCII art is.... interesting.

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#62050 26-Feb-2007 21:37

I would love to see the source code for that email.
If you use outlook express, right click on the message and select properties and on the details tab is a [view source] button. I would be interested in seeing if it is from xtra, or your email client should have some method of showing it to you.

The other possibility is that its just a spambot testing to see if the email address is real or not by checking if the message bounces. Something could be coming (more spam).

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#62053 26-Feb-2007 21:43

I received the same email

Return-Path: <xtra@xtra.co.nz>
Received: from sf1441.xtra.co.nz ([172.23.12.61]) by fep06.xtra.co.nz
          with ESMTP
          id <20070226044717.UWES26198.fep06.xtra.co.nz@sf1441.xtra.co.nz>;
          Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:47:17 +1300
Message-ID: <1070226041619.9432.19250@fep06>
X-Mailer: immsgmassmail #1
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: It's all about the anticipation.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:05:12 +1300
From: "Xtra" <xtra@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Xtra Customers"
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
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SOMETHING'S COMING...

Keep an eye on your inbox. Something good is about to happen.=20

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#62054 26-Feb-2007 21:45

It was sent to 7 of my xtra accounts... all of them are private.

Checked the headers too. So I assume its valid but only one way to find out.

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#62063 26-Feb-2007 22:01

Woah
Ok so I am starting to believe this is something real.

Does anyone here work for xtra and know whats going on?

Did the xtra spam filter mark it as spam?

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#62069 26-Feb-2007 22:14

I got it, its gotta be legit, who would bother sending a spam with text only, and no links or advertising of any kind. Definitely a teaser of some sort, though they are clearly not experienced experts at building suspense.

New plans, ADLS2, or some shiny new value added service....