Re: Strange message

[Sarah Stevens <sarah () STEVENS-TECHNOLOGIES COM>]

Looking at the punctuation and spelling errors makes me hope that this
is not the individual whom earned the Master's Degree.:-)

> Have you looked at the mail headers to see what the originating IP is
> and where it's coming from? That could be of help, but since there are
> not threatening to do anything illegal why bother?
>
> Adrian Crenshaw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy L. Fikes [mailto:fikesj () WBU EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:19 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Strange message
>
> We received a couple of messages (both identical) from a Hotmail account
> named "wbusucks".
>
> The text of the messages is shown below. Have you seen anything like
> this before?
>
>
> Dear Mr. Reid and Mr. Ballard,
> i want your school to succed but you will not payatention to what I said
> in my last e-mail. please do somthing about your schools policy towards
> people under the age of 21.  Your school does not allow 21 year olds to
> obtain a masters degree.  I know of a person who attended your school
> that finished the requirements for a masters at 21 but your school made
> that peron wate untill they were 22.  This is ageisom and you can get
> introuble for this.
> since you did not want to pay attencion to me the first time i have sent
> a letter to the govener of texas to shut your school down.
>
>
> Jimmy Fikes
> Chief Information Officer
> Wayland Baptist University
> 1900 W. 7th Street, CMB 229
> Plainview, TX 79072-6900
> (806) 291-3540 (Office) (CST)
> (806) 291-1974 (Fax)

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