Are there similar messages arriving at nonexistent email addresses at your company? Is the CEO's email address a common, simple format [email protected]?
Maybe respond to it with a link that appears to be something deep/internal to the company, see if they'll take the bait and reveal something about themselves. Even if they used a proxy you'd at least know there was likely a human on the other end. Wesley Sent from my iPhone On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:36 AM, David Kovar <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening, > > A mid-sized high tech client got a new CEO a few months ago. Since coming on > board, he's received a steady stream of probe email addresses from a wide > variety of throw away email address. The addresses are most often Gmail > accounts with random letters for the name and for the address. The subject > line and message body are often blank, but they occasionally contain "Hello". > There is no malicious payload. No other messages arrive from the same address > to any employee and the sender's address doesn't show up via any searches > I've conducted. > > Any speculation on the purpose of these messages? > Any ideas on how to trace them back to someone? > Any ideas on how to stop them? > Anyone else seeing this? > > -David > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
