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Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20040105093319.05798ec8@mail2.m5computersecurity.com> From: mike at m5computersecurity.com (Michael J McCafferty) Subject: [Fwd: Please contact me !!! 800 453 2287] It is undoubtedly a "real world" Distributed Denial of Service. Imagine the number of phone calls that valid phone number is getting this morning. If the number of calls is enough to prevent legitimate business calls from getting through at that number then it was successful. Our spammer must have a gripe with the bank. I too received this message. It came from 210.0.189.159 in Hong Kong. I went to look it up at samspade.org, but that site seems down.... possibly enduring a DDoS itself. :o( At 11:30 AM 1/5/2004 -0500, Meeusen, Charles D wrote: >This isn't by any stretch an exhaustive inquiry, but I'd love to have >someone who knows better than me tell me what's happening here. Why would >email that, from all outward appearances seem to be spam, be sent with a >valid phone number of a (seemingly) valid company but via (seemingly) >nefarious means(seemingly) be trying to get banking info from me? > >C. ************************************************************ Ask me about our web and e-mail hosting solutions ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Computer Security 858-576-7325 Voice http://www.m5computersecurity.com ************************************************************
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