Email Phishing Scam being Circulated March 9, 2009
All mun.ca email account holders are advised that a new
"phishing"
email aimed at stealing login names and passwords is
circulating.
Offending messages examined thus far have all been of the form
below;
as per previous phishing attacks however, minor variations in
text
can be expected.
>
> From: PureMessage - Admin <admin.info@mun.ca>
> To: Undisclosed Recipients
> Reply-to: admin@email-helpdesk.com
> Subject: Email Support 03/09/2009
>
> Attention MUN E-Mail Account Holder,
>
> We are currently performing maintenance for our Digital Mail
Account
> holders due to the rate of identity informations problems
being
> encountered by our mail account holders. We discovered that
our mail
> account owners have been receiving phishing emails from
unknown
> personnels asking them to verify their e-mail account. And due
to
> all these, we are upgrading our Digital Mail Security Server
for
> better online services.
>
> In order to ensure you do not experience service interruption,
please
> you must reply to this email immediately and enter your mun.ca
email
> address here ( )and password here ( ) for security
> reasons and check out your new features and enhancements with
your
> new and improved MUN webmail account. To enable us upgrade
your
> Account for better online services please reply to this
mail.
>
> Note that we request your username and password for
identification
> purpose only and you will be sent a new
confirmation/alphanumerical
> password so that it will only be valid during this period and
can be
> changed after this process.
>
> MUN E-mail Technical Informations Department
> 2009 Memorial University of Newfoundland.
>
Clients are advised to not reply to or follow any links contained
in
these messages. Account holders who have done either and fear they
may
have divulged their username and password should change their
password
immediately and contact the Computing and Communications' Help
Centre
(x4595, help@mun.ca) for
assistance.
Clients are reminded that Computing and Communications does not
verify
or otherwise solicit client login credentials (username/password)
through e-mail. Never reply to or follow links appearing in such
messages, regardless of how legitimate they may appear. Clients
should instead report all such emails to the Computing and
Communications' Help Centre (x4595, help@mun.ca).
