Company sends powder via mail; USPO says OK
Optimizzin Al-gorithm
oa at acm.org
Wed Oct 17 16:09:41 PDT 2001
Lets see... anything labelled 720 Winners Circle, St. Cloud, Minn is
safe?
What part of "social engineering" don't you understand?
Packet-routed networks are networks, and addresses can be spoofed.
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Postal Service Informs of Mailings
The Associated Press
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001; 1:39 p.m. EDT
ST. PAUL, Minn. With fears of anthrax in the mail
running high, postal
inspectors in St. Paul have given their colleagues a
heads-up that
Publishers Clearinghouse is sending out packages of
powdered detergent.
"There's nothing to be alarmed about in that package,"
Inspector Jeanne
Graupman said. She added: "Just the timing of it
wasn't very good."
The Oxyclean household cleanser is being sent out in
1=-pound packages
with the return address 720 Winners Circle, St. Cloud,
Minn.
The St. Paul Postal Inspection Service issued an
advisory to inspectors
Tuesday. Graupman said she sent the memo after postal
inspectors got a
call from a worried customer who had received a leaky
package of the
powder.
Chris Irving, senior director of consumer affairs for
Publishers
Clearinghouse in Port Washington, N.Y., said Oxyclean
is being mailed
only to customers who ordered it.
Publishers Clearinghouse sells household items in
addition to magazine
subscriptions.
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