Comclutz Broadband...

Bob Bell bbell at hp.com
Wed Jul 30 08:54:28 EDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:37:57AM -0400, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:25:21 -0400
>Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> wrote:
>> I received an e-mail yesterday from Comcast that my new comcast.net
>> (or whatever) e-mail address is working now.  Which is great news,
>> except that I have not been a customer of theirs for over 4 months.
>> 
>> I was attempting to retrieve my e-mail from my current provider, not
>> realizing that fetchmail was still configured to get mail from AT&T,
>> and logged into their POP server with my now aged expired account,
>> still active.
>I received email from 
>Comcast Online <online.communications at comcast.m0.net>
>Welcoming me to the new Comcast. This email did not originate from a
>comcast address, so I sent it to abuse. This looks very much like a
>SCAM. The web pages they refer you to are also not in the Comcast
>domain. 

Perhaps, but I consistently receive mail from several companies (Target
and Palm, IIRC) that I believe is legit, sent from a m0.net address.

-- 
Bob Bell <bbell at hp.com>
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