Re: "<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...?

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

Hi,

We got this also.

Joel

--On Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:06 PM +0000 John Lupton <lupton () ISC UPENN EDU> wrote:

> We're receiving reports from across campus today about a spam/phishing-like
> email inviting the recipient to sign up for "UPENN Collaborative Networks"
> at the provided URL. The accompanying text suggests it's a Facebook/LinkedIn
> wannabe, the (alleged) sender is one "Brett Ashlock
> (bashlock () weavemail com)". I tried plugging other peer institution names
> into the URL in place of UPENN and got a raft of 404 messages.
>
> Anyone else seeing this, or are we just the lucky lottery winners this time
> around?
>
> They do not appear to be related to Collaborative Networks
> (www.collaborativenetworks.net), a Boston-based firm. The URL in the message
> is part of www.weavespace.com, and that site is remarkably free of
> informative as to who, what and where these people are, and Mr. Ashlock does
> not seem to light up any Google searches, nor does he appear in any of our
> Penn databases.
>
> I'd love to know if any of you are scratching your heads at this too.
>
> ====================================================
> John Lupton
> Sr. Information Security Specialist/Copyright Agent
> University of Pennsylvania/ISC
> lupton () isc upenn edu      (215) 573-3811



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