Aggressive and misleading advertising

["Langford, Matthew" <Matthew.Langford () UNCO EDU>]

We had a company <Wildfire> sending hundreds of emails an hour to our student population.  The advertising implies that 
this is a resource the belongs to campus before saying at the bottom they are unaffiliated with campus.  They also use 
two hooks I really don't care for.  They have acquired the students names in addition to their email address (which 
isn't published or shared) and they use the users first name in the subject line and second the message they share 
indicates a fire at the library as a "sample" message but they don't make that clear.

Have any others encountered this issue?  Did your institutions take any actions to halt the campaign?


Matt Langford

Chief Information Security Officer
IM&T – Office of Information Security

University of Northern Colorado
Campus Box 19
Greeley, CO 80639

O: 970-351-1420


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