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From: Michael J McCafferty (mike_at_m5computersecurity.com)
Date: 01/05/04

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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:39:15 -0800

    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.

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