"<insert your EDU here> Collaborative Networks"...?

[John Lupton <lupton () ISC UPENN EDU>]

We're receiving reports from across campus today about a spam/phishing-like
email inviting the recipient to sign up for "UPENN Collaborative Networks"
at the provided URL. The accompanying text suggests it's a Facebook/LinkedIn
wannabe, the (alleged) sender is one "Brett Ashlock
(bashlock () weavemail com)". I tried plugging other peer institution names
into the URL in place of UPENN and got a raft of 404 messages.

Anyone else seeing this, or are we just the lucky lottery winners this time
around?

They do not appear to be related to Collaborative Networks
(www.collaborativenetworks.net), a Boston-based firm. The URL in the message
is part of www.weavespace.com, and that site is remarkably free of
informative as to who, what and where these people are, and Mr. Ashlock does
not seem to light up any Google searches, nor does he appear in any of our
Penn databases.

I'd love to know if any of you are scratching your heads at this too.

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John Lupton
Sr. Information Security Specialist/Copyright Agent
University of Pennsylvania/ISC
lupton () isc upenn edu      (215) 573-3811