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Phishing or Legit Gotmead Security Mail Update?

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WRATHWILDE

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Mar 19, 2005
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I just got this in my mailbox...

Dear user of the gotmead.com mailing service!

We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (wrathwilde@gotmead.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://gotmead.com/owa/service_dire...mead.com&from=gotmead.com&fromname=wrathwilde

Best regards, gotmead.com Technical Support.


Just wanting to know if you did in fact update the accounts? I didn't click on the link, but copied it and pasted it to my browser. The text in blue was inserted in the address when I pasted, which makes me think someone is fishing for passwords. That and I'm used to notifications being signed by Vicky or Pete.

http://gotmead.com.oikkkkuh.co.uk/owa/service_directory/settingsphp?email=wrathwilde@gotmead.com&from=gotmead.com&fromname=wrathwilde

Anybody else get this email? I'm emailing Pete and Vicky to see if it's legit.

Wrathwilde
 

Oskaar

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Good catch Wrath.

Bottom line is if it's from Vicky, Gotmead or I, it will resolve back to GotMead.com.

Thanks for the vigilance!

Pete
 

WRATHWILDE

Lifetime Patron
Lifetime GotMead Patron
Mar 19, 2005
1,970
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54
Dubuque, Iowa
www.zazzle.com
Phishing Round 2

Hey Pete and Vicky-

I Just got another one...

Dear user of the gotmead.com mailing service!

We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (wrathwilde@gotmead.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://gotmead.com/owa/service_dire...mead.com&from=gotmead.com&fromname=wrathwilde

Best regards, gotmead.com Technical Support.


The Subject Lines for both emails are as follows...

#1 - For the owner of the wrathwilde@gotmead.com e-mail account

#2 - A new settings file for the wrathwilde@gotmead.com has just been released

In the first case the "Sender" was identified as robot@gotmead.com
In the second case the "Sender" was alert@gotmead.com

Since I've never known gotmead, or anyone ever, to put a email address in the subject line, you or Vicky might want to update the filter to automatically flag anything with @gotmead in the subject line as spam.

Cheers,
Jered (Wrathwilde)
 
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