9/15/2008

Phishing Scam Alert

Faculty, Staff and Students,

Many people on campus have been receiving messages like the one below.  Please know that they are scams and you should NOT respond.  We will NEVER send you a message asking for your password or date of birth.  If we send you a message we will sign our names.

Messages like the one below are an attempt to steal your identity and you should NEVER respond to them.

Please be careful!

Ron Heasley

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Ron Heasley, Exec. Dir. of ITS, Nicarry Hall 113B, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA  17022

See the ITS Blog  |  P 717 361-1558, F 361-1483

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From: Judith Bowen [mailto:jebowen@utpa.edu]
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:33 PM
Subject: CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: Email Support Team

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS: Email Support Team
EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM
support901@live.com

Dear Subscriber,
This mail is to inform all our {.EDU} users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now, So you as a Subscriber of our site, you are required to send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box. Further be informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning so as to create more space for our new users. So you are to send us your mail account details which are as follows:

*Login Page/Webpage:
*User name:
*Password:
*Date of birth:

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database.Thank you for using .EDU webmail!FROM THE SUPPORT TEAM.

support901@live.com