OK. I've got a hex dump. Here's what the file looks like in a text editor:

Importance,"First Name","Middle Name","Last Name","Full Name",Company,
+Department,"Job Title","Street (b.)","City (b.)","State (b.)","ZIP Co
+de (b.)","Country/Region (b.)","Home Phone","Business Phone","Mobile 
+Phone","Business Phone 2","Business Phone 3","Business Phone 4","Busi
+ness Fax","Business Web Page","Street (h.)","City (h.)","State (h.)",
+"ZIP Code (h.)","Country/Region (h.)","Home Phone 2","Home Phone 3","
+Home Phone 4","Home Fax","Personal Web Page","Mobile Phone 2","Mobile
+ Phone 3","Mobile Phone 4",E-mail,"E-mail 2","E-mail 3","E-mail 4",x,
+y,z,w,Office,Supervisor,Assistant,Salutation,Nickname,Gender,Spouse,B
+irthday,Anniversary,Family,Hobbies,Specialty,Strengths,Personality,No
+tes,"Custom 2","Custom 3","Custom 4","Custom 5","Custom 6","Custom 7"
+,"Custom 8",Comment,Group,"Birthday Reminder On/Off","Anniversary Rem
+inder On/Off"
Normal,,,,"A-1 Heating and Cooling","A-1 Heating and Cooling",,,"PO Bo
+x 94",Newport,Virginia,24128,"United States",,544-7810,,,,,,,,,,,"Uni
+ted States",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"953-1513
Scott - service mgr - cell 540 357 2816","Emergency  contacts",No,No
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And here's the hex dump of it

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+D 65 22 2C 22 4D 69 64 64 6C 65 20 4E 61 6D 65 22 2C 22 4C 61 73 74 2
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+C 22 EF BB BF 39 35 33 2D 31 35 31 33 0D 0A 53 63 6F 74 74 20 2D 20 7
+3 65 72 76 69 63 65 20 6D 67 72 20 2D 20 63 65 6C 6C 20 35 34 30 20 3
+3 35 37 20 32 38 31 36 22 2C 22 45 6D 65 72 67 65 6E 63 79 20 20 63 6
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+C 22
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Notice, from the dump that there another EFBBBF toward the end of the file. And: I tried to brute force it and it didn't work!! I did the

$line =~ s/\xef\xbb\xbf//
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and it didn't remove the characters! I'll try again...

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