Judging by the emails the original message is sent to, it looks like the Toshiba rep sent it to all of his MSU sales contacts - I know at least one person on that list, and while working with him previously I know we purchased a couple of Toshiba laptops. Since Toshiba isn't exactly high-volume in terms of sales to MSU it's quite possible they're unaware of the cstore. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University 517-884-1231 ________________________________ From: Troy D Murray <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Troy D Murray <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:00:03 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] FW: New Toshiba Web Site for MSU Faculty and Staff Me too, bad form on Toshiba's part if it's legitimate. -t On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Lee Duynslager wrote: Wouldn't the proper procedure have been for them (Toshiba) to go to the computer store on campus and have them put a link on the cstore website, with all that information (if it is true). I take this kind of direct solicitation with an eye of skepticism as it could be an attempt at social engineering. LD ________________________________ From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kramer, Jack Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 9:43 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] FW: New Toshiba Web Site for MSU Faculty and Staff Looks like a legitimate affiliate site to me - a lot of companies do this kind of "limited affiliate" system where they authenticate based on user email domain, and they're not asking for our MSU passwords - the only thing I can think of them getting out of this would be a list of likely MSU toshiba purchasers, and if they really wanted a list of msu.edu email addresses there are much easier ways to get it through the LDAP service. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University 517-884-1231 ________________________________ From: Laurence Bates <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Laurence Bates <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:41:17 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [MSUNAG] FW: New Toshiba Web Site for MSU Faculty and Staff Any ideas about this email? ________________________________ From: Reimann, Chris [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:54 AM To: Kate Baird; [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: New Toshiba Web Site for MSU Faculty and Staff Is this for real, or is it a sophisticated phish? ________________________________ From: Mikosz, Jeff [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:31 PM To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Subject: New Toshiba Web Site for MSU Faculty and Staff All MSU Faculty and Staff, Toshiba is proud to announce the new MSU website we have set up for faculty and staff to purchase directly from the manufacturer at special member pricing. We offer you special pricing on everything from tablet PCs and laptops, to projectors and TVs. The following steps are needed to obtain access to the new website. Please contact me if there are any issues you encounter in registration, or any products you would like to have added to the site. I look forward to being of service as your dedicated account manager. Go to www.store.toshiba.com/customer <http://www.store.toshiba.com/customer> <http://www.store.toshiba.com/customer> Click on "new user" The account number is 1237552 Enter your information. Please use just the msu.edu email ending as it won't recognize any other (in other words, don't use mail.msu.edu or others like that) and click register You should get a pop up saying your temporary password is being emailed to you. On the sign in page, list your account number, email address and the temporary password, it will take you to a prompt to change your password. Once in, check out your great discounted pricing and let me know if I can help in any way. I request if you are planning on doing a purchase order, you save a quote in the site and still send me the copy of the PO via fax or email for processing. You may reference your quote number that you create on the PO. Thank you, Jeff Mikosz Toshiba Education & Government Sales 888-625-3276 ext.7082 Fax 480-776-8895 [log in to unmask] Website www.toshibadirect.com <http://www.toshibadirect.com> Vendor Address: Toshiba America Info Systems 8123 S. Hardy Dr Tempe AZ 85284 -- Troy Murray Systems/Database Administrator Michigan State University Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) 100 Conrad Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-432-4248 Fax: 517-353-9420 E-mail: [log in to unmask] AOL IM: troymurray72 MSN IM: [log in to unmask] Yahoo! IM: [log in to unmask] GTalk\Jabber: [log in to unmask]