Friday, December 4, 2015

Really Quickies: What Brave New World Is This Dept.

     It’s a mind-boggler. Just this morning, I’ve received several “Nigerian 411 scam” style solicitations from the domain kcpublicschools.org, all of which say the same thing:

     Good day to you,i have a great request for you regarding $24M.

     Say what? I’m used to receiving spam that goes “Are you into MILFs?” (As it happens, I’m married to one) or “Like my booty? Click this link to video chat” (Thanks but no thanks; my face dissolves camera lenses), but this is a new one.

     Is there anyone among my Gentle Readers who can tell me whether kcpublicschools.org is a domain that’s actually used by the Kansas City public schools? If so, just what kind of in-class project is this?

5 comments:

Col. B. Bunny said...

I be you, bro, I be jumpin' on that 24 million.

Francis W. Porretto said...

Naah. I'm too busy exploiting my MILF -- and hoping she doesn't notice.

CGHill said...

Major nameserver is DNS1.KCMSD.K12.MO.US, which is legitimately the Kansas City (Missouri) School District.

Still, anyone can fake an email address, and it's entirely possible that someone could be using the district's hardware for mischief; it's a Microsoft server, with known weaknesses.

Mike from GA said...

Whois info is:

Domain Name:KCPUBLICSCHOOLS.ORG
Domain ID: D163723186-LROR
Creation Date: 2011-10-28T15:44:54Z
Updated Date: 2014-07-14T13:29:58Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-10-28T15:44:54Z
Sponsoring Registrar:Register.com, Inc. (R71-LROR)
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 9
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Domain Status: ok -- http://www.icann.org/epp#ok
Registrant ID:615868210be68510
Registrant Name:PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West
Registrant City:Jacksonville
Registrant State/Province:FL
Registrant Postal Code:32258
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.9027492701
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email:8a51d84d0a28fd237f9c6dd4ac4a81bb@domaindiscreet.com
Admin ID:121092910ba61716
Admin Name:PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 12808 Gran Bay Parkway West
Admin City:Jacksonville
Admin State/Province:FL
Admin Postal Code:32258
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.9027492701

Doesn't look like legit public school to me...

Anonymous said...

I would guess that the school district recently 'lost' a bunch of email addresses, if it didn't get hacked outright and now their addresses, if not their entire system, is being used to send spam. Either way, it doesn't look good for their IT people!
Chemechie