Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Smells Phishy to me...

The following was sent to just students on a recently implemented "Cloud email server"

Attn User:

  To verify your account, kindly reply to this mail with the required details below:

Username:
password:

Failure to comply your account will be
terminated.

EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM

One word was changed to protect the organization.  The email was sent in plain text from an email address obviously outside of our organization.  No less that 5 students replied to the email with their information.  Are we sure this is a technical university?

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