On 1/6/2014 9:35 AM, rchadwic wrote:
> I found this in my mailbox just now, ostensibly from TI.
>
> Subject:	The Perfect Time To Freshen Up Your myTI Profile
>
> Graphics, etc "Update your profile and check out our new design tools"...=
...
> with a request for account info buried inside
>
> I have no account with them; my last dealings with Texas Instruments was
> sometime in 1969.
> I have no idea how they got my Email address...
>
> You may want to be watchful; I am treating this like spam and deleting it=
,
> but here's the URL, slightly modified, for your perusal and edification.
>
> Texas Instruments [tiprimeDELETE THIS@dlep14.itg.ti.com]
>
>
That looks more like an email address than a URL.
In any case, after reading this, I found a TI email in my inbox and=20
looked at it suspiciously.
It is from
tiprime@dlep14.itg.ti.com ,
similar to the address you have above.
It includes links, not to ti.com, but to another address
recp.mkt41.net/ctt?m=3D...
with "..." representing a whole bunch of parameters, including...
&kd=3Dhttp://reviews.ti.com...

And, one of the links referred to a product I had recently got samples=20
of.  So, the email in my case appears legit.  Nonetheless, I don't like=20
to click on email links that go to third party sites and include a whole=20
bunch of tracking parameters.

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Joe Wronski
jwronski@stillwatereng.net
www.stillwatereng.net

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