Yep, same exact experience. I went so far as to log into their sample web
portal and look at my recent history (none). (and not though any link in
the email)
Not at all sure what's going on, but as you said, it didn't ask anything of
me.

More to be revealed - maybe.



On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Has anyone else recently received an email claiming that a Microchip samp=
le
> request was made "on your behalf"?
>
> My first reaction was to think that it must be a phishing attempt but it
> doesn't request that I follow any links or open any documents. Also it
> passes gmail's authentication tests for having come from microchip.com
>
> I don't recall placing any sample orders with them in years and I can't
> think who would have done it for me.
>
> One more strange thing is that it says that the email is a summary of my
> order but there is no list of parts or any delivery address for me. Maybe
> it was a phishing attempt and there was an attachment originally? But it
> would be strange for gmail to strip out the attachment and not give me a
> security warning about the message.
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