Re: what is the Campus Collaboration Project?

[Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>]

Bob Bayn wrote:
> We have recently been spammed by the Campus Collaboration Project.
> The email messages came with various subject lines, various sender
> addresses and various hosts.  The messages were all pretty much the
> same and referred to their website by a bunch of aliases including
> "CampusWise.org", "StudySocial.org", "StudySimple.org" and others.
> The website lists several "featured schools" and I'm wondering if
> anyone on this list from those schools can confirm that any real
> collaboration has been established between the campus collaboration
> project and:
>
> Arizona State University Ohio State University New York University
> University of California - Berkeley University of Illinois -
> Champaign/Urbana

We've been getting a lot of these emails, as well. I thought that the
first set was just some Facebook-wannabe that wasn't above spamming as a
marketing technique, but getting nearly identical messages from all of
these different domains is casting it in a more sinister light.

--Matt

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