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[ramtops]

dear Lands End

I received the following e-mail from you overnight; it's taken me quite a while to work out whether it is a spoof or not, but eventually I've discovered that it isn't. But only by digging into SOA records and so forth, so I suggest you change your "from" address to something a little less confusing.

one of the reasons I thought it might be a phishing e-mail is that I do have an account at Lands End, but I am most emphatically *not* Mrs Pamela S Forbes. And I have no idea whether you have refunded me or her - I'm not due a refund, by the way. So I think you need to look into this.

if whoever is reading this doesn't know what I'm talking about with regard to phishing e-mails, then please pass it on to someone technical.

no love

me

Comments

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

Mrs Pamela S Forbes sounds like it might be a perlmonger doppelgänger. Was the refund for something floaty in a floral print?

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

my word - I think you may have put your finger on the nub of the matter.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

How *dare* you! I'd *never* wear a floral print.

»flounces«

[quercus.livejournal.com]

But only by digging into SOA records and so forth,

Now _that's_ hardcore Web2.0!
Debugging your trousers with SOAP



Surely this is phishing? Domain looks unconvincing and Lands End always used to have a clue on web stuff.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

no, not fishing. The domain belongs to a company which advertises on their own web site that they manage e-amil for Lands End.

I did go into it quite carefully.

and there wasn't a single link on the mail that wasn't genuine.