It's commonly called "phishing". You'll get the same thing with stolen
graphics from your bank, paypal, banks you don't have anything to do with,
credit cards, etc. It's from people who hope that you're a) a customer of
the institution they're spoofing, and 2) gullible enough to provide them
with info - passwords, SS#, etc.
"Our greatest duty in this life is to help others. And please, if you can't
help them, could you at least not hurt them?" - H.H. the Dalai Lama
"When buying & selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing to be
bought & sold are the legislators" - P.J. O'Rourke
Dan Fitzgerald
From: "Jerry Banker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [U2] Spam/Virus?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:31:23 -0500
I just received an email from the admissions server at Hamilton College in
New
York. Any of you people on the list? It said my email account would be
closed
if I didn't fill out a form that was attached. Of course I didn't open it
because I have nothing to do with Hamilton College. Anybody else receive
this
email? Sounds like a virus.
Jerry Banker
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