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The University notified students, staff and faculty Tuesday of a fraudulent e-mail and blocked the sender's address from the University server.
This warning was a response to a phishing attempt asking individuals to supply MyUGA IDs, passwords, their birthday and "country or territory" via e-mail....
John Rollins
posted 4/20/09 @ 11:25 AM EST
From: EDUCATIONAL WEBMASTER [mailto:ang2575@email.vccs.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:24 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Reactivation Of Your EDU Email Account
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Kindly note that We recently did some upgrade on our database.
During the upgrade there was an unusual responds code from your email address requesting for deactivation. Verify to deactivate or keep your email account active.
In order to verify/confirm your email identity, You are to provide the following data;
CONFIRM YOUR EDU EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
First Name:____________________________
Last Name:_____________________________
Email Username:________________________
Email Password:________________________
Account Deactivation:No__________________(specify yes to deactivate. No to keep
active)
Reason for Deactivation_____________(if yes)
Warning!!! in failure to verify your email account within 48hrs on receiving this notification, your account will automatically be deactivated
Thank you for using EDU Webmail!
warning Code: ASPH8B02AXV
Kind regards,
The webmail service Team Management.
ABN 33
All rights reserved.
This is an obvious attempt to steal account information that should be avoided.