At 08:28 AM 9/16/2005, Connie Sellitto wrote:
>Tracy,
>I seriously doubt that HP itself is involved - spammers often 'spoof' 
>valid domain names, just so they appear to be legitimate.  We have had a 
>similar situation here at cfa.org, where messages were sent that had valid 
>CFA email addresses as the sender.  Very difficult to track exactly back 
>to the point of origin, although your email provider should be able to 
>assist in going back at least a few 'hops'.

if you look at the whole header it should be obvious.  Like all those 
PayPal, eBay and Amazon bogus emails that go out and try to get your 
passwords and account information.


>>As some of you know I run a yahoo group called "Empire_on_HP3000" just 
>>for the purpose of game announcements on one particular machine that runs 
>>some old CSL library text games.
>>
>>The below address subscribed into my yahoo group (note it is from an 
>>hp.com address) and sent a spam to the yahoo group promoting jobs at a 
>>place called 'HP Chennai.'
>>
>>"hpchennai_hr1" <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>Chennai is in India.  It was COBOL specific, but the requirement also 
>>said "Mandatory Skills : COBOL, C, PASCAL."  (I could be wrong, but maybe 
>>they're looking for a replacement for that guy who lost the C compiler 
>>the other week.  I'm not sure on that score.)
>>
>>I think resorting to spam represents a new low for HP.
>>
>>
>>BT
>>Tracy Johnson
>>http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/
>
>--
>Connie Sellitto
>Programmer/Analyst
>732-528-9797 ext 18
>
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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
www.mindawn.com
949-713-3276

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