Solved: Re: Autodesk informed me I am accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Page 4

Turchik_Kevin · ‎05-08-2019

No joke! I received 6 emails from:

Christopher Puskar <chris.puskar@autodesk.com>

"

Dear Friend,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

DavidCastello85 · ‎08-10-2020

This is great news, and I am so glad because getting my NCARB cert has proven to be very difficult and I am thinking about switching fields; magic, naturally, was my first choice!

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

@sean.heasley It's the future and it happened again... lol

I want to go to Hogwarts though.

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

Sorry to say but i think this is a scam.. the original Posting was from May 2019. and word for word was exactly the same as mine. i think Hogwarts has been Cursed (Hacked)..

jprillaman · ‎08-10-2020

So far the only person to receive this in our office was our office manager. I'm sure some others are going to be disappointed they got left out. On the bright side, this is the most entertaining phishing email scare anyone has handed me all year.

tony_niemeyer · ‎08-10-2020

I told the muggles in my family I will be gone for a while. I was excepted to Hogwarts. So excited LMAO

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

I received my invite this morning as well. This is the best thing that has happened in a while. Thank you whomever for the cheer and mystery.

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

Got my acceptance too. I am so excited!!!!!

I knew I am different because I am a witch!!!

Can't wait for my journey to Hogwarts.

2020 is not too bad!

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

I have received the same email:

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

gothitis · ‎08-10-2020

From the Autodesk twitter account.

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

oh booo

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

I got my invite too! But my office said I must delete it 😞

Please send Hagrid to rescue me from them!

Rowena · ‎08-10-2020

Please be aware that a huge segment of Autodesk customer base received yet another email regarding acceptance at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Is this something Autodesk plans to correct and prevent going forward as our customers have reached out to us with concern/lack of amusement?

And yes; my first and last name is ironically connected by coincidence to the Harry Potter brand 🙂

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

No sooner than I told my coworker there was going to be that 1% that did not find it as funny as we did.

Again, Oh Boooo to them.

Anonymous · ‎08-10-2020

ME too! I got in, but missed owl deadline. Please please please accept me to Hogwarts.........

Discussion_Admin · ‎08-10-2020

official reply from above.

"We’re aware of the suspicious looking email that many of our customers received this morning. It was sent in error on our part. We apologize for the confusion and are reviewing our email marketing processes to avoid this in the future."

DA

Remember the Hogwarts Express departs from Platform 9 ¾ .😎

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troyeikenberry · ‎08-10-2020

Got Mine!

Not bad for a Mudblood.

Won't be running into any walls at the train station just yet.

jcalvert_KitoUSA · ‎08-10-2020

Got mine today, as well. Looks totally phishy. There is also a hidden, non-existent img in it which makes it even more suspect... 🤔

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head>
<body>
<div id="body" class="mktoText" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; padding:10px;">
<div>
Dear Jesse,
</div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.
</div>
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>
Yours sincerely,
</div>
<div>
Minerva McGonagall
</div>
<div>
Deputy Headmistress
</div>
</div>
<a href="http://click.autodesk.com/f00hQlr0Jo0rgO3EFVD4Q0P"></a>
<img src="http://click.autodesk.com/trk?t=1&mid=OTE4LUZPRC00MzM6MDoxMjgxNTQ6ODAxODQ0OjMzMDMzNjM6MTcyMzc1Oj..." width="1" height="1" style="display:none !important;" alt="">

 
</body>
</html>

mspeer · ‎08-10-2020

Hi!

When programming or creating templates sometimes this sort of content is added for several reasons:

- good mood

- in case something unintended or accidental happens, no confidential content is provided and whatever happens it can't be mistaken for an intended action or content.

I can't say for sure, but this looks like a template that was sent out accidentally (especially as this was confirmed as an error by Autodesk at twitter).

It's recommended to delete such suspicious emails without viewing or clicking on any links, but this does not look like a phishing email.

MattCLewis · ‎08-10-2020

So you're telling me that I didn't get accepted to Hogwarts...?

Rowena · ‎08-10-2020

That's a good explanation. Maybe in the future they could just create a template with the words test-please disregard...just a thought.