Election Hoax Sent Via D.C. Based E-Campaign Group

An e-mail hoax telling 35,000 George Mason University students, faculty and staff, that the election had been moved to Nov. 5, was sent through servers run by a D.C. based company that seeks to help political campaigns promote their messages online. The fake e-mail, sent just after 1 a.m. this morning to a campus listserv, was crafted to appear as though it was sent from GMU’s provost. In a follow-up e-mail sent this morning by the real GMU provost, the university said the hoax was perpetrated by someone who had apparently “hacked into” the school’s e-mail system. But information sent to washingtonpost.com by a GMU student indicates that the hoax succeeded because of a lack of proper filtering on the university’s e-mail servers. In addition, it appears that the message was routed through e-mail servers at a local political advocacy group. According to information contained in the e-mail header –
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