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mikestock
Explorer
Aug 09, 2021

Help understand what's going on with emails

I often get emails with jibberish below and have no idea why or what they mean. Am I the only one seeing this junk?

2mx47uzqboak3t9nilcyUHJGMCZQXEyTZ5k-8?B?cA==?==?92v7crtv04lnis61oqufgx83hjBTXZUAOIKE8bH5q-8?B?YQ==?==?3s5htnvfraudj4ok29q6YHOLTGBZRNdU29M-8?B?bA==?==?5hqxp47iegbzndkf28aoFRLBOQAWYIq4boj-8?B?LQ==?==?x4gzvosf6q38yd57itkbBRVDSIZLQF6CSWx-8?B?Yw==?==?3e8hnt6oz42gjlpxi5kwDBIORJAYHLmhsPl-8?B?bA==?==?mlgwr3daxevfqyk9obpnGMXLUOCFVSTGa7Q-8?B?ZQ==?==?f21cu8xir90ml4d65ys7UNEIJVAFQPwv14r-8?B?YQ==?==?xaq0zfd2kgo6j7vsr913YNABSOGRPMQftoO-8?B?cg==?==?zhs35deu21yrvjx0ago7GZAVCONSUX6A8LW-8?B?IA==?==?jbe0fwla4sxi6mKHSRZPTOAGa4JuG-8?B?aQ==?==?8uwt9jxv2oyz3dnif6klNSXKLTWJIUNsydn-8?B?Yw==?==?
At the bottom they say something like:
"TheMostPowerfulMonocularTelescope?"
  • mikestock's avatar
    mikestock
    Explorer
    Aug 10, 2021
    I would never think of clicking on one of these. They're immediately deleted. I was just curious, because they keep coming.
  • T18skyguy's avatar
    T18skyguy
    Explorer
    Aug 10, 2021
    From Google, "When you get a message, Gmail tries to guess what encoding the sender used so it can properly open and display the message. If Gmail guesses wrong, you usually end up with a screen of gibberish because the message wasn't translated properly from one encoding to the other" I suppose the other email clients would do the same. Strange things happen on the computer. :h
  • philh's avatar
    philh
    Explorer II
    Aug 10, 2021
    I read my emails from the providers server. This generally should avoid nefarious email content.
  • toedtoes's avatar
    toedtoes
    Explorer III
    Aug 09, 2021
    Usually the jibberish occurs because the originating message is using characters/images that are not known to your email system.

    Remember that messages are sent electronically, so an image or character gets converted to binary for the transmission and then is translated back into the image/character at your end. In these cases, the translation doesn't happen.

    The main thing is that a legitimate email message will not contain just gibberish. So if you get one with gibberish, you can be certain it's spam.
  • magicbus's avatar
    magicbus
    Explorer II
    Aug 09, 2021
    Agreed. Looks like a photo, possibly with a link, that your email carrier has decided is spam and has rendered it innocuous.

    Dave
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Aug 09, 2021
    Sounds to me like that's a photo or a virus (Without analysys I can't tell which) As someone said,,,,, Report as spam
  • way2roll's avatar
    way2roll
    Navigator II
    Aug 09, 2021
    mikestock wrote:
    I do all the above and I never click on an email when I don't recognize the sender. I just don't understand the purpose of the jibberish and why anyone would bother to send it. This happens a lot and for a long time.


    The purpose is to get you to click on a link. A myriad of things can happen after that.
  • mikestock's avatar
    mikestock
    Explorer
    Aug 09, 2021
    I do all the above and I never click on an email when I don't recognize the sender. I just don't understand the purpose of the jibberish and why anyone would bother to send it. This happens a lot and for a long time.
  • bukhrn's avatar
    bukhrn
    Explorer III
    Aug 09, 2021
    I report them as spam, I don't open any emails that I don't know the sender.
    Just like I don't answer calls on my house phone, if I don't recognize the caller, especially the ones that come up as "Unknown", or "Unavailable", if they're unavailable, so am I.

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