Phishing Attempt Claiming to be System Administrators
University IT security professionals have received alerts concerning a phishing attempt from an attacker claiming to be "System Administrator". The message states that your mailbox is over its quota. The message ask you to click on a fraudulent link. This e-mail is a fraudulent message. Please delete the message.
A copy of the phishing attempt is shown below for reference.
Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator,you are currently running on 20.9GB,you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your mailbox.To re-validate your mailbox please click this http://SOME-URL. |
This announcement posted Wednesday, July 7, 2010