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Re: New depths in phishing

  • From: Luke Gill
  • Date: Fri Mar 24 10:27:54 2006

Is this really phishing or just clever marketing to drive up spam numbers?

It clearly says at the bottom of the page that it is NOT affiliated with the University.



On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

On 3/24/06, Lucy E. Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
edu.com is quite old as far as domains go... but its not really a
phisher as far as i can see - its a purveyor of "online diplomas" from
assorted universities, and some obvious diploma mills (including
those of the spamming variety, such as the University of Phoenix)
and collecting information from students interested in enrolling
at umich...

.. and uoregon ...

yeah that too.  and of course making money for a string of google ads
about various diploma mills that take up most of their website space
besides a short "article" on online degrees.

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])