Shawn and List,
Well, here's the full-text of the message (pasted from my yahoo group
including yahoo's links.) Everything seems to check out. There is an
HP facility at Chennai. I've seen spoofers send garbage and
false-positives, but rarely I'll see a spoof that is this close to
reality.
Unlike spoofers it doesn't even ask to reply back to the sender or a
link. It seems to assume any reader can respond directly to HP. If it
is false then I would put it in the 'hoax' category instead of 'phish'.
From: "hpchennai_hr1" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:38 am
Subject: Opportunities at HP-Chennai (HPe3000/MF-Cobol)
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Dear All,
About HP
HP provides technology solutions to consumers, businesses and
institutions across the globe. Our offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and
printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses. Our
company employs over 140,000 people in 178 countries doing business in
more than 40 currencies and more than 10 languages.
OUR REQUIREMENT
Expert - Unix system / HPe3000 / C programming - 892474
Job Description
Description
Software Engineers/Senior Software Engineers
Experience: 1-6 yrs
Mandatory Skills : COBOL, C, PASCAL
Familiarity with migration methodology
Expert - Unix system programming
Master - C and any other programming language
Optional : HPe3000 platform.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shawn Gordon
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] How Low Can HP Go?
>
>
> 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
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