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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.

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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
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