Katrina Smith-Mannschott ’08 sends in this bit of spam she received. She writes, “Apparently, even spammers have trouble telling Wesleyan and Wellesley apart.” Nice going, wannabe password thieves!
From: “WELLESLEY.EDU SUPPORT TEAM”Date: July 15, 2008 17:31:06 GMT+02:00To: (her username)@wesleyan.eduSubject: UPDATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNTReply-To: verification_team03@yahoo.com.hkDear wellesley.edu Subscriber,
We are currently carrying-out a mentainance process to your wellesley.edu account, to complete this process you must reply to this email immediately, and enter your User Name here (**********) And Password here (**********) if you are the rightful owner of this account.
This process we help us to fight against spam mails. Failure to summit your password, will render your email address in-active from our database.
NOTE: You will be send a password reset messenge in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.
Thank you for using wellesley.edu!
THE WELLESLEY.EDU TEAM
I feel absolutely no guilt about leaving the spammers’ e-mail addresses up there to get spammed themselves.
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nonono, wellesley.edu is just code for “my retarded spam scheme.” i wonder if this guy will send ME any mails.
nonono, wellesley.edu is just code for “my retarded spam scheme.” i wonder if this guy will send ME any mails.
“thank you for using wellesley.edu”using? more like attending the institution
“thank you for using wellesley.edu”
using? more like attending the institution
what idiot would reply to such a message when the reply address is a Yahoo Hong Kong account?LOL
what idiot would reply to such a message when the reply address is a Yahoo Hong Kong account?
LOL
They’re from Hong Kong!
They’re from Hong Kong!
Spammers phish for emails because spamming from a wesleyan.edu address (usually) won’t get blocked, whereas email from http://www.free-eMail4spam.com will get automatically deleted with more scrutiny.
Spammers phish for emails because spamming from a wesleyan.edu address (usually) won’t get blocked, whereas email from http://www.free-eMail4spam.com will get automatically deleted with more scrutiny.
come on, give people some credit. you’re such a downer. and why does a person need to phish emails to send mass spam, when there are all those sketchy addresses i find in my gmail spambox? (i can’t provide an example right now because i just deleted all my spam.)
come on, give people some credit. you’re such a downer. and why does a person need to phish emails to send mass spam, when there are all those sketchy addresses i find in my gmail spambox? (i can’t provide an example right now because i just deleted all my spam.)
Generally speaking the username and passwords that spammers have gotten from phishes recently have been used to use Wesleyan’s email servers to… send out spam.And I’d imagine some people fell for this one too.
Generally speaking the username and passwords that spammers have gotten from phishes recently have been used to use Wesleyan’s email servers to… send out spam.
And I’d imagine some people fell for this one too.
hahahahaha. the spammer doesn’t know how to phish, how to speak english, or even who the fuck he wants to spam. i mean seriously… how did this retard type in WESLEYAN.edu and not realize wellesley.edu is different? i wonder what he would do with the information (if admissions – for either school – failed so completely as to accept someone naive enough to fall for this). maybe he wants to identity-steal himself a college education. hmmm.
hahahahaha. the spammer doesn’t know how to phish, how to speak english, or even who the fuck he wants to spam. i mean seriously… how did this retard type in WESLEYAN.edu and not realize wellesley.edu is different? i wonder what he would do with the information (if admissions – for either school – failed so completely as to accept someone naive enough to fall for this). maybe he wants to identity-steal himself a college education. hmmm.