• no (unregistered)

    "This message is from a trusted sender" could very well be part of the email body itself

  • AzureDiamond (unregistered)

    that truck is a emoji: 🚚 🚒🛻🚛

  • (nodebb)

    The spam mail thing is really weird. FedEx is using GMail addresses, and it's a trusted sender? Maybe the scammer was smart enough to add the trusted sender banner directly to the top of the email.

    I agree to AzureDiamond that the truck is obviously an emoji.

    And regarding the question why embedded images are rarely used: Many mail providers don't allow them. I once implemented a service adding embedded images to emails, only to find out that they won't go through AWS' SMTP servers.

  • ichbinkeinroboter (unregistered)

    Defintely a WTF. The @#$%^!! computers don't get to swear at US. WE swear at the @#$%^!! computers !!!!

  • WirSindDieRoboter (unregistered)

    Data URLs, maybe? RfC 2397

  • COBOL Dilettante (unregistered)

    My webmail provider has several levels of trust - trustworthy enough to not get sent immediately to the spam folder, and trustworthy enough actually to display images. Though when it blocks images, it (correctly) says it's to protect my privacy, rather than because it thinks they're spam

  • (nodebb)

    Since embedding images was the whole point of MIME in the first place, I have found it odd that they're so so hard to construct with typical marketing mass mailers,

    It's not at all odd. If they use exclusively embedded images, they (the spammers) cannot detect that you've opened the email and seen the images. (To say nothing of Melissa U's point, which is definitely worth considering.)

  • Scragar (unregistered)
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