Hi One & All,
I went to www.dlep14.itg.ti.com and this what I got: "The requested URL "ww=
w.dlep14.itg.ti.com" cannot be found or is not available. Please check the =
spelling or try again later."  So it is not anything GOOD!?!!?
BEN

> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:42:50 -0500
> From: jwronski@stillwatereng.net
> To: piclist@mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [PIC} Possible Spam/Phishing Expedition?
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> 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 wa=
s
> > 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...
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> 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=
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> bunch of tracking parameters.
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> jwronski@stillwatereng.net
> www.stillwatereng.net
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