Phishing email warning
The College (like many other institutions) has been a target of fake (or "phishing") email offers/warnings. These malicious messages are meant to trick users into sending sensitive information to spammers. The best thing to do with these email messages is to delete them.
Here is a transcript of such a "phishing" message. If you receive a message such as the one below, do not reply to it, do not forward it, simply delete it.
-----Original Message-----
From: EDU ACCOUNT UPGRADE TEAM [mailto:arippy@purdue.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 6:35 AM
Subject: FINAL VERIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW
Dear Email Account Owner,
This message is from educational messaging center to all our email
account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and email account
center. We are deleting all our edu email accounts to create more space for new
accounts.
To prevent your edu account from closing you will have to update it below
so that we will know that it's a presently used account.
We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners and this is
the last notice/verification exercise.
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username : .......... .....
EMAIL Password : ................
Date of Birth : .................
Country or Territory : ..........
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account
within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.
Thank you for using edu!
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
Edu Account Upgrade Team