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John and all, I called the originator of the message and verified it is legitimate, but with the Dreamweaver-introduced typos and such, it didn't come out well. Spartan Way is actually the campus address for offices that are headquartered in the stadium addition.... I also advised the user that the message as crafted kind of sets our users up to respond to illegitimate/phishing messages. Expiring passwords is all well and good, but it's important that the notices that might go out not act to encourage people to respond to the inevitable receipt of a phish. My opinion, at least.... /L At 3:36 PM -0400 4/12/10, John Valenti wrote: >hi NAG'ers, >I'm trying to decide if this is spearphishing, or legitimate. > >It has at least two tags tending toward malware: > 1) subject line is messed up with "size="+1" > 2) link to SOS Group is numeric IP address (but on campus) > >I'm guessing it is legitimate, but pretty confusing. What is >"Spartan Way"? A search says that it is a street name, but how can >someone be in a street? >thanks for any leads >-John > >PS - sorry to forward this to the group, but my people send me >about five of these per week, and I can usually decide within 30 >seconds. Four out of the last four have been scams. > -- Leo Sell ATS Help Desk 517-432-6200