Monday, August 25, 2008
This is an EMERGENCY ALERT from I.T. in regard to an e-mail that is coming into our Exchange server. Please DO NOT respond to any e-mail that is requesting your username and password ... ever!
The following is an example of an e-mail we are seeing:
From: Webmail Upgrading Service <upgradinservice@info.com>
Reply-To: <remittanceunit4@live.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
To: <undisclosed-recipients:;>
Subject: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Webmail Upgrading Service
Dear Subscriber,
Due to spam complaints of email users in our webmail system, our investigation shows that your email address is compromised and is used to send out spam message in our webmail system.
As a result, our network engineer will be conducting a maintenance in our webmail system, your Username will be disabled if you do not send us the required information within 48hrs.
Informations Required:
Your Full Names:
Email address:
Password:
Retype Password:
E-mail: account-teamdept@live.com
We value your business and thanks for using our Webmail Service.
Maintenance Webmail Team.
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