spam alert: bogus domain "edu.se"
Looks like it's for Swedish educational institutions, doesn't it? At least to us (US) parochial webbies. But no, those are apparently like http://www.edu.su.se/, which belongs to the Department of Education at Stockholm University (English page). The rest of this post is mostly from what I've just put up on Web of Trust:
edu.se is a totally bogus domain. After a few days offline I reopened gmail and checked my spam folder. Twelve new posts classified as spam: one Nigerian scam and all the rest from clearly meaningless addresses like N46746@HG6870.edu.se, (example made up from memory, since I didn't save them), and most of them generously sprinkled with cheerful emoji in the subject/from snippets. "whois" says
$ whois edu.se # Copyright (c) 1997- IIS (The Internet Foundation In Sweden). # All rights reserved. # The information obtained through searches, or otherwise, is protected # by the Swedish Copyright Act (1960:729) and international conventions. # It is also subject to database protection according to the Swedish # Copyright Act. # Any use of this material to target advertising or # similar activities is forbidden and will be prosecuted. # If any of the information below is transferred to a third # party, it must be done in its entirety. This server must # not be used as a backend for a search engine. # Result of search for registered domain names under # the .se top level domain. # This whois printout is printed with UTF-8 encoding. # state: active domain: edu.se holder: petadv8143-00002 admin-c: - tech-c: - billing-c: - created: 2013-10-09 modified: 2017-01-04 expires: 2017-10-09 transferred: 2014-05-13 nserver: hsdhsd2.dsfsdfsd.com nserver: hsdhsd1.dsfsdfsd.com dnssec: unsigned delegation status: ok registrar: www.binero.seThe server domain names are also meaningless, made by twiddling the fingers of the left hand on the [US standard] keyboard. Now I can spamfilter- no, even better, instant-delete!- all of these with no fear at all.
And though I have no direct evidence about child suitability, scams, or malware, and hope never to have any, I would not be at all surprised to find such garbage on such a domain.
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edu.se is a totally bogus domain. After a few days offline I reopened gmail and checked my spam folder. Twelve new posts classified as spam: one Nigerian scam and all the rest from clearly meaningless addresses like N46746@HG6870.edu.se, (example made up from memory, since I didn't save them), and most of them generously sprinkled with cheerful emoji in the subject/from snippets. "whois" says
$ whois edu.se # Copyright (c) 1997- IIS (The Internet Foundation In Sweden). # All rights reserved. # The information obtained through searches, or otherwise, is protected # by the Swedish Copyright Act (1960:729) and international conventions. # It is also subject to database protection according to the Swedish # Copyright Act. # Any use of this material to target advertising or # similar activities is forbidden and will be prosecuted. # If any of the information below is transferred to a third # party, it must be done in its entirety. This server must # not be used as a backend for a search engine. # Result of search for registered domain names under # the .se top level domain. # This whois printout is printed with UTF-8 encoding. # state: active domain: edu.se holder: petadv8143-00002 admin-c: - tech-c: - billing-c: - created: 2013-10-09 modified: 2017-01-04 expires: 2017-10-09 transferred: 2014-05-13 nserver: hsdhsd2.dsfsdfsd.com nserver: hsdhsd1.dsfsdfsd.com dnssec: unsigned delegation status: ok registrar: www.binero.seThe server domain names are also meaningless, made by twiddling the fingers of the left hand on the [US standard] keyboard. Now I can spamfilter- no, even better, instant-delete!- all of these with no fear at all.
And though I have no direct evidence about child suitability, scams, or malware, and hope never to have any, I would not be at all surprised to find such garbage on such a domain.
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