[89539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New depths in phishing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ulevitch)
Fri Mar 24 11:26:35 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603240811340.20199@geoduck.uoregon.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: David Ulevitch <davidu@everydns.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:26:05 -0800
To: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Lucy E. Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, David Ulevitch wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Lucy E. Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> edu skimming - try http://umich.edu.com/
>>
>> While it's kinda lame it is far from a phishing site. They even
>> say on the submit form: "Yes! I'd like additional information from
>> College.us.com and its marketing partners." Chances are that you
>> will actually get something from UMich (along with a bunch of
>> other junk too no doubt).
>>
>> Phishing is bad enough as it is, let's not broaden its definition
>> to include all things we find uncool.
>
> actually, this is cross posted from the UNISOG list, and the schools
> in question have no connection with this and get no referrals from
> collected data.
Your admissions office is misleading you or you just haven't asked
them or they don't care to answer you. They pull leads from many
sources including the College Board and numerous others. Many of
those sources aggregate their data from places like this and flyers
in high schools, reps and all kinds of junk. If you are really
concerned, tell your school CSO to talk to Admissions and get some
details. I think Admissions and Alumni Relations workers probably
compete with each other over who can annoy more people. :-)
Universities are often huge organizations and do all kinds of great
and sometimes some not so great things. Don't be surprised. But now
we're getting off-topic.
Best,
David Ulevitch
