Phishing Attempt "Your mailbox is almost full."
University IT security professionals have received alerts concerning two phishing attempts with a subject line "Your mailbox is almost full". One message states that your mailbox has exceeded the set quota. It asks you to click on a link to validate your email account. The other message states that "computer database maintenance" is going on, and it asks you to revalidate your mailbox. Both messages are a fraudulent phishing attemtps. Please delete the messages.
A copy of the messages for reference is posted below.
This announcement posted Friday, September 10, 2010