New depths in phishing

Fri Mar 24 15:26:35 UTC 2006

Is this really phishing or just clever marketing to drive up spam  
numbers?

It clearly says at the bottom of the page that it is NOT affiliated  
with the University.

On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:09 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>
> On 3/24/06, Lucy E. Lynch <llynch at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>> edu.com is quite old as far as domains go... but its not really a
>>> phisher as far as i can see - its a purveyor of "online diplomas"  
>>> from
>>> assorted universities, and some obvious  diploma mills (including
>>> those of the spamming variety, such as the University of Phoenix)
>>
>> and collecting information from students interested in enrolling
>> at umich...
>
> .. and uoregon ...
>
> yeah that too.  and of course making money for a string of google ads
> about various diploma mills that take up most of their website space
> besides a short "article" on online degrees.
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)