[ale] New form of spam or phising?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2008-06-10 10:26:33 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:

> Just received an email with subject of failure notice from 
> MAILER-DAEMON at kidsi.net. It appeared that I had sent an email to an 
> unknown recipient and it was being returned. I tried kidsi.net on my 
> browser (FF3.0b) and it appears to be an Asian based site and 
> immediately a large message box popped up making some statement about 
> sharing Fedora 9. I cancelled of course, but to be honest I'm not sure 
> what just happened. Any ideas?

This is most likely backscatter (possibly from a phishing attempt),
but probably not a direct phishing attempt itself:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28e-mail%29

 --dkg
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