I get a few emails a month,both in my in box and in spam that masquerade as a shipper or paypall or the like. They state the issue needs my attention but there are no links in the email.

My question is ,what is the purpose of this? Is this a learning curve for a would be attacker or did it actually serve a purpose?

Thanks for your expertise!

Maybe they're hoping you will reply and then they can try to extract personal information from you.

No attachments? The ones I get usually have an attached, probably infected, pdf or doc file.

Same. Maybe they're trying to switch things up and hoping people will let their guard down?

I've gotten emails of this sort that have included phone numbers. Never tried calling one, though.

I agree that these are probably sent to provoke a reply message, such as responding that the link wasn't included. In addition, if the user allows the download of inline images within their email client, these can be used as a tracking device.

You don't mention how your e-mail is processed before you view it. It's possible somewhere along the way the links are being stripped.

Another reason for no links is that the skript-kiddy didn't know how to use the script properly!

In addition to what has already been suggested (phone number, answer incitement, attachment), one cannot forget that phishing is often done by very low-level delinquents so sometimes the fraudulent links are simply missing (I noticed it some times)...

All that is written, above..,

plus

some phishing mails and other UBE still include arbitrary text, in the headers for example, in the believe that it may fool Bayesian filters and render them inefficient. I had thought the futility of these attempts had become obvious years ago, but I still see it happen...

on the other hand.., I still receive Nigeria-Scums.

Here's the Raw Message with my email address removed from a email with no subject and no message.

There is not subject line, but the mail appears to come from Amazon. The sender has not made any effort whatsoever to hide behind falsified addresses or the like.

Are you sure that this is phishing and what tells you so?

There is nothing else left to say:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comme..._email_and_my/
• http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml (check 54.240.27.204)

This just checks the IP address,correct? I comes up as invalid with a service you don't have to register with.

Could someone point me in the right direction on how to understand the Raw message? I assume it's code with a base of 16 but I'm just guessing. Is there a safe way to view the message without a filter?

Yes, it checks the IP reputation according to SORBS blacklist only.

What do you mean?
Currently, this IP is listed so is suspect:
You mean the whole header or just the X-YMailISG part (you can find more information on https://serverfault.com/questions/24...mailisg-header)?

It's not always recommended. A fraudulent email could try to find a vulnerability in your email client and exploit it. Otherwise, it could just try to know if you opened it so your email address is validated and you will receive more spam/phishing or advanced threats like social engineering...
If you really want to open this mail, maybe you could make sure your email client is up-to-date and open the message in text-mode only (no HTML)?