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Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System
From: "Manjak, Martin" <mmanjak () ALBANY EDU>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:14:37 +0000
We received similar notifications when we were actually involved in a case, and the notes were legit. I wonder if these are related to the DNS Changer take down that was reported last year. Marty Manjak ISO University at Albany The University at Albany will never ask you to reveal your password. Please ignore all such requests. -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of James R. Pardonek Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:07 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System I received one as well. My PIN is different. Please let me know if there is anything additional I can assist you with to ensure the service you received today has been excellent. James R. Pardonek Assistant Director for Information Security and Assurance Purdue University Calumet | 2200 169th Street | Hammond, IN 46323 (o) 219.989.2745 | (f) 219.989.2581 | www.purduecal.edu/security -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Brent Sweeny Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:05 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System is anyone else getting these sorts of USDOJ notices? they look and feel like a phish (the generic opening is very suspicious, the 'victim id #' and PIN are the same in all instances of the note, the whole premise smells fishy, the references to later communication that so far haven't happened, etc), but the URLs and phone numbers are legit, and there's no fake reply-to or underlying URLs, so I can't find anything explicitly wrong with it. even the mail headers look correct. the note refers to attached information, and while there's no attachment, I just assumed the information is included, not literally 'attached.' thanks. Brent Sweeny, Indiana University
Current thread:
- Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Brent Sweeny (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Timothy J. Fairlie (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Garza, Veronica M. (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Dexter Caldwell (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Garza, Veronica M. (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System James R. Pardonek (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Jacobson, Dick (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Manjak, Martin (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Solem, Vik P. (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Ken Connelly (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Roger A Safian (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System O'Callaghan, Daniel (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Ozzie Paez (Jan 17)
- Re: Fwd: US Department of Justice Victim Notification System Timothy J. Fairlie (Jan 17)