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is this a fake VATUSA e-mail address


Michael Smith
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Michael Smith
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Hello guys,

 

I just got an e-mail from this address [email protected] telling me that I have been removed from the ZSE roster. for some reason I don't believe this is the real VATUSA address . can someone please tell me if that is true?

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Michael Smith
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Paul, I sent him a e-mail already and looked on ZSE roster and I'm still on.

 

I have a good feeling this is a fake e-mail

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Brian Sperduto 856560
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Just ignore it emails from that address are real but you can go ahead and ignore that.

Brian Sperduto

VATSIM Membership Team 1 Lead

[email protected]

Cross the Pond Oceanic Veteran '07, '08, E & W, '09 E & W '10 W

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Owen Catherwood 903683
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I just got the same email, and was a bit puzzled by it to say the least...

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Owen Catherwood 903683
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Garrett Wiedmeier 954546
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This was not a hack of our server (at least ZSE's server). A spoof maybe, which we can't control. The email, as indicated in the post, was sent from:

 

[email protected]

 

So this is run-of-the-mill "standard" spam (Remember: email has no security. Never trust any email unless you were explicitely expecting to receive it)

 

No need for alarm. Just follow standard email precautions and be careful. Anybody can be anybody in an email. It's the easiest thing to do.

 

But good to always check like this...

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Garrett Wiedmeier

Seattle ARTCC C1, ZSE Webmaster

http://www.gmwnet.com/

Garrett Wiedmeier

ZSE ATM

http://www.seaartcc.net/

 

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Steve Ogrodowski 876322
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Something similar has happened to me before:

 

I misspelled some PHP code in one of my scripts that would send an e-mail to our staff members on certain events. Well, that caused the "Sender" information to include the Host name instead of the Domain name, so the e-mail you got was from:

 

"master (at) host****(dot)***(dot) com" when it should have been "master (at) zobartcc (dot) org"

 

So a couple of our staff members frantically e-mailed me asking who that was, and whether we had a hacker, etc...when in fact, the e-mails really did just originate from our web server as they were supposed to, just without the normal Domain name extension. It was kind of funny.

 

Now, if you see "[email protected]"...well then you might wanna be very careful.

Steve Ogrodowski

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