RE: Dubious e-mail: [Fwd: Dell.com (Password Request)]

["Rob Shein" <shoten () starpower net>]

I think what you have here is that someone tried to get your password, but
failed...kind of silly of them, really, since they would obviously have
mailed the password to your email address.  Going to that link and typing in
the password the email provides wouldn't get the attacker anything (if they
had sent the email in the first place) because you'll just use the password
they gave you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: houyachi () MINDSPRING COM [mailto:houyachi () MINDSPRING COM] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:46 PM
> To: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Dubious e-mail: [Fwd: Dell.com (Password Request)]
>
>
>   I received the inline e-mail from what claims to be DELL Online 
> service. A Quick SAMSPADE search shows that smtp9.us.dell.com 
> has an ip 
> of 143.166.148.136 and is registered to DELL Computers. I 
> have an uneasy 
> feeling about this and my call to DELL went unanswered. I spoke to 
> customer service asking to speak to someone who can look into 
> this but I 
> was sent back to the belly of the phone system and was given the 
> runaround. This is could be somebody trolling for passwords 
> by spamming 
> anyone, or someone who got hold of a DELL customer listing and is 
> fishing for passwords. Idid not want to check the link below from my 
> workstation for that would amount to a partial verification of the 
> e-mail address. By the time I got to check it via sampsade it 
> gave a 404 
> error.
>
> Any thoughts of a recourse of action here if any at all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Hamid Ouyachi
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: - Thu May 29 12:58:30 2003
> X-UIDL: 19lede2U83Nl3rE0
> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> Status: U
> Return-Path: <listmaster () dell com>
> Received: from saltmine.radix.net ([207.192.128.40]) by 
> bissell.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with ESMTP id 
> 19lede2U83Nl3rE0 for <houyachi () mindspring com>; Wed, 28 May 2003 
> 23:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from mail1.radix.net (mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]) by 
> saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4T3aI1o028383 for 
> <houyachi () saltmail radix net>; Wed, 28 May 2003 23:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from smtp9.us.dell.com (smtp9.us.dell.com 
> [143.166.148.136]) 
> by mail1.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4T3aHps024172 for 
> <houyachi () radix net>; Wed, 28 May 2003 23:36:17 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from AUSOLADPERFT05 
> (ausoladperft05.development.online.dell.com [10.32.4.239]) by 
> smtp9.us.dell.com (8.12.9/8.12.7) with SMTP id h4T3WDq5006521 for 
> <houyachi () radix net>; Wed, 28 May 2003 22:32:13 -0500
> From: listmaster () dell com
> thread-index: AcMlk2Ne/6yJtEMaQGGgaVv1s0P3qg==
> Thread-Topic: Dell.com (Password Request)
> To: <houyachi () radix net>
> Subject: Dell.com (Password Request)
> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 22:35:45 -0500
> Message-ID: 
> <096001c32593$635e98f0$ef04200a () development online dell com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0961_01C32569.7A8890F0"
> X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
> Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
> Importance: normal
> Priority: normal
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.0
> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.31
>
>
>
> We recently received a request to e-mail your password to you. Your 
> Dell.com My Account password is 'password'. You may use the 
> following URL 
> http://membership.dell.com/dellportal/signin.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=
gen 
<http://membership.dell.com/dellportal/signin.aspx?s=gen> to return to 
your account page.

We look forward to providing continued world class support for your 
computing needs.

Dell Online
http://www.dell.com <Dell.Storm.UI.Atoms.SimpleLink>


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