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Phishing email requesting account details
A number of people are receiving emails purporting to be from the University, requesting that the user confirms their email account details – username and password. This is a “phishing” email and is an attempt to capture personal information.
IT Services will NEVER ask you to confirm Username and Password in this way.
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Hoax email – requesting account details
A number of people are receiving an email, which purports to be from the University, requesting that the user confirms their email account details (including password). This is a “phishing” email and is an attempt to capture personal information. You should not provide the details to this site.
If you have provided your details, you should change your password as soon as possible, please contact the IT Services Helpdesk for advice on 73737. The text of the email is as follows:
Sent: 07 March 2009 10:53
Subject: UPGRADE YOUR warwick.ac.uk ACCOUNT
Dear Staff/Student
This message is from the Webmail IT Service messaging center to all subscribers/webmail users. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center due to an unusual activities identified in our email system. We are deleting all unused Webmail Accounts. You are required to verify your webmail account by confirming your Webmail identity. This will prevent your Webmail account from been closed during this exercise.
In order to confirm you Web-Mail identity, you are to provide the following data; First Name:
Last Name:
Username/ID:
Password:
Date of Birth:
*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and correctly otherwise due to security reasons we may have to close your account temporarily.
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your Webmail Account. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Regards,
IT Service
Hoax email – requesting account details
A number of people are receiving an email, which purports to be from the University, requesting that the user confirms their email account details (including password). This is a “phishing” email and is an attempt to capture personal information. You should not provide the details to this site.
Hoax emails – requesting IT account details
A number of people have received an email, which purports to be from IT Services, requesting confirmation of their account details (username, password etc).