This scam has been reported several times, someone made a blog post about it:
https://joewein.net/blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-data-access-process-spam-from-virginia/ They appear to be trying to steal IPs, validate email addresses, and maybe match them with internal company networks. On 14 Dec 2021 09:39:15 -0500 John R Levine via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > I got a couple of copies of this message to addresses scraped off my > websites. It was sent from AWS cloud using a recently registered domain > so it's likely a phish, but "Ross Teixeira" is a real person, a grad > student at Princeton. Needless to say, sending blasts of spam to scraped > addresses is not going to get useful research results. > > Anyone else get this? If you want to complain, Princeton's IRB which is > supposed to review every experiment with human subjects is at > i...@princeton.edu. Or if you want to ask Mr. Teixeira what the bleep he > was thinking, he's at rteixe...@princeton.edu. > > Regards, > John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY > Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
