[asterisk-users] Phishing attempt

[Roderick A. Anderson]

John Todd wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> FYI/Heads up,
>>
>> I /just/ received what looks like a phishing attempt for information
>> about Open Source PBX usage.  It says it comes from Digium but all the
>> links (including the one for digium.com) point elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Rod
> 
> 
> Rod -
>    It's a "legitimate" mail from Digium.   We're trying to use the  
> tools that others have built instead of building our own systems, so  
> this particular company that we've chosen for research collection has  
> their own hosts outside of the Digium DNS and server structure.   
> Myself, I'm a big fan of Google Docs but they do have some  
> shortcomings (like also not being in our DNS or server structure) and  
> not everyone uses the same tools here at Digium.   "There's more than  
> one way to do it", as goes one of the more famous Asterisk sayings.
> 
>    Sorry if that message you received seemed unusual or unexpected  
> because of the URL format.  You can opt-out at the bottom of the  
> emailings in the future if you wish, though some of the data that  
> we're collecting will be tangentally useful in promoting OSS Asterisk  
> in various forms.  And to proactively answer the next question that  
> may come up from someone:  We've _never_ used the asterisk-* mailing  
> list for any direct marketing email input lists.  In other words:  
> whatever email address you've used for the asterisk-* lists is  
> private, and Digium never uses those for marketing purposes.

Thanks for the info John.  I figured the addresses used on the lists 
were _private_.  And if memory serves my correct when I did a download 
a few month ago I gave my email address and an OK to contact me.  The 
breaking point was the digium.com link.


Rod
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