Re: Phishing attempt

[Theresa Semmens <theresa.semmens () NDSU EDU>]

Roger,
Thank you for the link. I forwarded it to the "victim" to help him relax.
Have a great weekend.

Theresa Semmens, CISA
NDSU IT Security Officer
PO Box 5164
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND
Phone: 701-231-5870
FAX: 701-231-8541
Theresa.Semmens () ndsu edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Safian [mailto:r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:51 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Phishing attempt

At 10:34 AM 2/8/2008, Theresa Semmens put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> One of our professors received the message below in his e-mail inbox last
> night.  Have any of you seen this one recently?  I know it was making the
> rounds about a year ago.

We received one report this week.

Just in case, here's a write up on it.

<http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hit_man_scam.htm>


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