I'm getting a huge amount of blank spam purporting to be sent by "Pfizer" or "Pfizer & Lilly" with headings like "Reminder Notice, "Customer Notification: Re-Order," "Client Notice," "Confidential: Re-Order" and the like.

The text contains nothing, and I doubt these are deliberately coming from Pfizer. Nor do I think they are "real" "spam" -- hence the quotes.

Last fall, however, a Wired article discussed Pfizer spam, and claimed the company's computers were hacked. Except I don't think that's happening this time, because when I ran the IP numbers on Network Tools, it told me that they are "from United Arab Emirates(AE) in region Middle East."

I think this might be a new form of guerilla anti-marketing, taking the form of "false flag spam." Most normal people would click on "delete as spam," except I think that is exactly the goal of whoever generated it. Is there a campaign to make company names like Pfizer and Lilly automatically trigger spam detection features of big service providers?

I don't know who is mad at Pfizer or why, but it seems that whoever is doing this could do it to anyone.

Am I alone in getting false flag Pfizer spam?