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Re: strange subscriptions?
From: Samuel Potts <pottssr () AUBURN EDU>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:32:32 -0500
Possibly this is the analog of testing out stolen credit cards (numbers) with small purchases to test validity before the real usage. Samuel Potts '98 Identity Management Auburn University, AL USA
"Flynn, Gary" <flynngn () JMU EDU> 4/29/10 2:46 PM >>>
We saw the same thing here. No explanation.
-----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Goldman
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:41 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] strange subscriptions? On Tuesday a few people here received emails welcoming them to the
Dept
of Homeland Security site and mailing lists. No one (I was one) had
ever
registered on that site. This afternoon, someone forwarded a similar email from World Vision Micro. Both emails appear clean with no misdirected links. It appears that someone, either manually or using a script, has taken
a
list of email IDs and names and is doing this. Does anyone have any ideas as to why? Jonathan -- ================================================================== The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering Jonathan Goldman George Mason University Director of Computing Resources (703) 993-3506 4400 University Dr. MSN 4A3 fax (703) 993-3977 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
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