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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1057537" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Got an "HMRC Tax Refund" email today - but, out of curiosity, before deleting it I checked out the underlying web domain, which seems to "bb.cnuas.edu"</p><p></p><p>Guess where that appears to be - see attached jpg, and I wonder where that would take me?<img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong> </strong></span></p><p>But the same search also threw up this:</p><p><strong>"California National University for Advanced Studies SSL certificates</strong></p><p><a href="https://certdb.com/organization/california_national_university_for_advanced_studies" target="_blank">California National University For Advanced Studies SSL certificates — CertDB</a> - which actually<em> appear</em>s to be some sort of legitimate site.</p><p></p><p>But following that link brings up a page with the following info at the bottom</p><p></p><p><em>"CertDB provides aggregated information about SSL / TLS certificates issued around the world. T<u>he most important information about the expiry date of certificates helps in providing comprehensive monitoring of the security of personal data, </u>the encrypted transmission of which provides a certificate. In a constantly growing database, CertDB updates information about protected domains and ports, organizations, types of certificates, issuers of certificates by country and region. </em></p><p><em>The CertDB team offers pre-configured groups of <a href="https://certdb.com/top/1" target="_blank">TOP-domains</a>, <a href="https://certdb.com/countries" target="_blank">TOP-countries</a>, <a href="https://certdb.com/organizations" target="_blank">TOP-organizations</a>, <a href="https://certdb.com/issuers" target="_blank">TOP-issuers</a> for quick viewing of ratings. The group New was set up to monitor the release of new certificates within the last 7 days. Group Expiring aggregated data about certificates that have expired in the last 7-1 days. "</em></p><p></p><p><em><strong>If </strong></em>that is a legit organisation, it would seem like not all the "offers" are coming from the East, Far East or Africa - but also from US "educational" facilities! Almost like "gamekeeper turned poacher".</p><p></p><p>In fact, I'm seeing quite a few suspicious domains with ".edu" at the end, and notably "hawaii.edu"!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1057537, member: 176704"] Got an "HMRC Tax Refund" email today - but, out of curiosity, before deleting it I checked out the underlying web domain, which seems to "bb.cnuas.edu" Guess where that appears to be - see attached jpg, and I wonder where that would take me?:rolleyes: [SIZE=5][B] [/B][/SIZE] But the same search also threw up this: [B]"California National University for Advanced Studies SSL certificates[/B] [URL='https://certdb.com/organization/california_national_university_for_advanced_studies']California National University For Advanced Studies SSL certificates — CertDB[/URL] - which actually[I] appear[/I]s to be some sort of legitimate site. But following that link brings up a page with the following info at the bottom [I]"CertDB provides aggregated information about SSL / TLS certificates issued around the world. T[U]he most important information about the expiry date of certificates helps in providing comprehensive monitoring of the security of personal data, [/U]the encrypted transmission of which provides a certificate. In a constantly growing database, CertDB updates information about protected domains and ports, organizations, types of certificates, issuers of certificates by country and region. The CertDB team offers pre-configured groups of [URL='https://certdb.com/top/1']TOP-domains[/URL], [URL='https://certdb.com/countries']TOP-countries[/URL], [URL='https://certdb.com/organizations']TOP-organizations[/URL], [URL='https://certdb.com/issuers']TOP-issuers[/URL] for quick viewing of ratings. The group New was set up to monitor the release of new certificates within the last 7 days. Group Expiring aggregated data about certificates that have expired in the last 7-1 days. "[/I] [I][B]If [/B][/I]that is a legit organisation, it would seem like not all the "offers" are coming from the East, Far East or Africa - but also from US "educational" facilities! Almost like "gamekeeper turned poacher". In fact, I'm seeing quite a few suspicious domains with ".edu" at the end, and notably "hawaii.edu"! [/QUOTE]
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