The e-mail says it’s from “Tech Support” and is titled “Details you asked for.”
The sent-from address is “service@ svr3snd. com” (intentionally broken by me). I don’t recognize the address and svr3snd. com does not seem to be a valid website of any kind.
The body of the e-mail:
That’s it. No attachments, links, sales pitches, nothing.
So who is trying to accomplish what by sending me this? Are they waiting for people to reply first before hitting them with the bad stuff? Because it’s seems like they’d get a pretty low rate of return there.
Sometimes messages like this will have HTML in the body of the message which includes a dummy image link with a unique name, associated with your email address. (Or possibly incorporating your email address.)
It doesn’t show up as anything (usually given dimensions of 1X1 pixels) but they can then check their server logs to see which recipients actually opened and read the messages- a request for something like Leaders in IP and domain reputation data | Spamhaus Technology means your email address has greater value because spam directed there actually finds a target.
Clearly, it’s a message from the other side, perhaps your dead grandfather, telling you to go ahead and take that risk you’ve been contemplating but fearing. Haven’t you gotten the memo- dead people are magic now. Usually they speak in rainbows, but sometimes email, too.