Weird email

chuckywang

Lifer
Jan 12, 2004
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I just got sent an email by somebody I don't know with an attachment entitled "Paypal.zip"
and the body of "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment."

Weird...Anybody know a safe way to open the attachment?
 

arcenite

Lifer
Dec 9, 2001
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Originally posted by: chuckywang
I just got sent an email by somebody I don't know with an attachment entitled "Paypal.zip"
and the body of "The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has been sent as a binary attachment."

Weird...Anybody know a safe way to open the attachment?

As long as it's a true zip file there shouldn't be anything to worry about... now what's inside the zip may be another story.
 

jjones

Lifer
Oct 9, 2001
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Wow, an e-mail from someone you don't know that has an attachment. The only time I've received one of those is every day. I've never opened any of mine but I'm curious; open yours and tell us what happens.