May 6, 2008
NOMAD Says Ignore Your Welcome Email
"Tuesday May 6, 2008 - 9:10 AM Central
NOMAD Status: WELLCOME TO THE NEW NASA WEBMAIL WARNING!!!!!
If you get an e-mail with "WELLCOME TO THE NEW NASA WEBMAIL" in the subject line, DO NOT provide the information this e-mail is asking for. This is a bogus e-mail that needs to be deleted and ignored. We are working to block this e-mail from NOMAD customers."
Editor's note: Hmmm - this is from NOMAD after all. How do we know that this alert is not fake and that the original message is actually legit? Isn't NOMAD supposed to prevent this from happening in the first place - or did NOMAD cause it to happen? Yes I am being silly. I just can't shake the 40 year old mental image of the "NOMAD" robot from Star Trek and the voice that it used every time I read a NOMAD Update. Perhaps someone could forward the offending email text to me?
Posted by kcowing at May 6, 2008 10:57 AM
Well, for starters, "Wellcome" is misspelled - that, I'm told, is one giveaway.
Posted by: Carl at May 6, 2008 12:06 PMOf course that "Wellcome" (sp) e-mail is a fake. It's rife with spelling, syntax, and idiom errors. (The idiom errors especially indicate that the author is not conversant with American dialect English.) Then there's the little (tm) on NASA.
Posted by: M. Stowe at May 6, 2008 12:16 PMThis was sent as part of a general warning notice to KSC personnel and contractors. I spelling errors should be a giveaway but it is from a federal agency ;-)
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Subject: WELLCOME TO THE NEW NASA WEBMAIL
Dear E-mail Users,
The new NASA(tm) Webmail is a fast and light-weight appliction to quickly and easily access your e-mail. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting NASA(tm) Webmail to create more space for new email.
To prevent your email from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used email.
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CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
User ID: ......... .....
E-mail Password : ...............
Secret Question : ...............
Secret Answer : ...............
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Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account Within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently
Thank you for using NASA(tm)Webmail!
Access Number: 859480KBM
Thanks,
NASA(tm) Webmail Center
https://webmail.nasa.gov
