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Strange e-mails from Excite.com


From: DAVID CULLEN <DAVIDCULLEN () HOME COM>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:57:08 -0800

My Web site has received 3 e-mails in the last week, via a Web
Support form (believe it is a CGI form), from the Excite.com
domain. All three e-mails asked verbatim:

"WhatÂ’s your corporate HQ street address?"

Has anyone else received similar messages in the past week?

I don't know if it is anything--beyond a simple address request--but
my company's supporters have not seen anything similar to these
requests in the last year.

I checked with Excite and I could not find the member names listed
in their directory.

Does anyone know of a possible exploit scenario? I was thinking
of a send-mail attack. Am I being paranoid?

Any thoughts, speculations would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks,
David


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