Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System

["Manjak, Martin" <mmanjak () ALBANY EDU>]

We received similar notifications when we were actually involved in a case, and the notes were legit.

I wonder if these are related to the DNS Changer take down that was reported last year.

Marty Manjak
ISO
University at Albany
 
The University at Albany will never ask you to reveal your password. Please ignore all such requests.                   
  

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of James R. 
Pardonek
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:07 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System

I received one as well.  My PIN is different.

Please let me know if there is anything additional I can assist you with to
ensure the service you received today has been excellent. 

James R. Pardonek
Assistant Director for Information Security and Assurance
Purdue University Calumet | 2200 169th Street | Hammond, IN 46323
(o) 219.989.2745 | (f) 219.989.2581 | www.purduecal.edu/security





-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Brent Sweeny
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:05 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System

is anyone else getting these sorts of USDOJ notices? they look and feel like
a phish (the generic opening is very suspicious, the 'victim id #'
and PIN are the same in all instances of the note, the whole premise smells
fishy, the references to later communication that so far haven't happened,
etc), but the URLs and phone numbers are legit, and there's no fake reply-to
or underlying URLs, so I can't find anything explicitly
wrong with it. even the mail headers look correct.   the note refers to
attached information, and while there's no attachment, I just assumed the
information is included, not literally 'attached.'
        thanks.  Brent Sweeny, Indiana University