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Oracle's email marketing uses similar tactics to scammers. Several people at my company got emails that went something like: "Hi I'm ___ and I'm the new accoun

by tensor 8y ago

Oracle's email marketing uses similar tactics to scammers. Several people at my company got emails that went something like: "Hi I'm ___ and I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us...." We don't have any services with them, so this certainly raised an eyebrow. Did someone open an account with them in our name? Did someone at my company subscribe to their services without me knowing? Discovering this was actually a sales phishing tactic certainly cemented us never wanting to do business with their cloud services.

le-mark 8y ago
You are required to register an account with them to access JDK downloads, sql developer, their help forums etc. Its really quite a pita. It may be these accounts they're targeting?
- s09dfhks 8y ago
  bugmenot has plenty of oracle logins you can use to get access to the downloads
- taakd 8y ago
  Why wouldn't you just get this from your distro's repos? Openjdk and the like are already there.
sbarre 8y ago
This sounds a lot like pure-commission "outside sales pretending to be inside sales" teams who are tasked with casting as wide a net as possible to cold-call anyone they can to try to warm them up for a real rep.
gowld 8y ago
Hi, I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us. You have 0 services with us? I'm the account rep for all of them! Perhaps you'd like to expand your service suite?