Phishing Scam Warning 15 July 2013

Phishing Scam Warning
Date/Time of Alert – 15 July 2013 – 09:00am

Dear Staff and Students,

Please be advised that a spam email is currently circulating the University's email system and soliciting account information and personal details from University members. The message encourages people to provide their account details in order to facilitate an email system upgrade.

From: "UTAS.EDU.AU" <upgrade.station.service20@<removed_address.com>

Date: 13/07/2013 7:36 AM (GMT+10:00)

To:

Subject: Reply At Once

Dear Officers, Your mailbox size of 1 GB has exceeded its quota and we are performing an on going upgrade in our UTAS.EDU.AU mailbox database, and we are de-activating all our un-used account, so there can be enough space for our certified and existing users.

If You Want Your Mailbox To Remain Active, Then You Have To Provide Your Correct Account Details. UTAS.EDU.AU has launched Mail Notification service through SMS(beta testing) for its UTAS.EDU.AU domain users. Users can get SMS alerts for email received in their mailbox.

This is filter based so users can configure specific email id's or domains for this SMS notification.

Fill the detail correctly for your account to be upgraded.

FIRST NAME:

LAST NAME:

USERNAME:

PASSWORD:

CONFIRM PASSWORD:

DATE OF BIRTH:

From UTAS.EDU.AU Account Department

Thank you for your cooperation,

Webmaster UTAS.EDU.AU management.

IT Resources advises all University members that this email is false and should be ignored or deleted. The University does not solicit account information via email, and does not require username and password information for system upgrades.

Any member who has responded to this email already is advised to call the IT Service Desk on extension 1818 and immediately change their password.