Two Phishing Emails Sent to U of U Accounts
Date: September 23, 2009
To: The U of U Campus Community
From: Office of Information Technology and the Information Security Office
Subject: Two Phishing Emails Sent to U of U Accounts
The two emails shown below are examples of recent malicious phishing scams sent to University of Utah accounts in attempts to trick users into revealing their usernames and passwords.
Please note:
University of Utah will never ask you for your password. Should you receive an email that you have questions about, please call your helpdesk before responding. The main campus help desk’s phone number is 801-581-4000 and the Health Sciences Center help desk’s phone number is 801-587-6000.
- If you have responded to the phishing email revealing your password please change your password now by logging into the Campus Information System and selecting "Change your Password" in the Employee Profile box.
First malicious phishing email |
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 To help us re-set your Disk usage on our Data Base prior to maintain |
Second malicious phishing email |
From: eMAIL MAINTENANCE [mailto: {email deleted}]]
Dear Email User, The School WebMail Management Team is performing a routine Server and Database Upgrade for safer and faster Internet service, all to better your WebMail Network. On this note, all users of the School WebMail Account should provide the information below to enable us Validate and increase your Mailbox Quota. Failure to do this would result in closure of your Mailbox. Please provide all these information completely and correctly. User eMail ID: Thank you. eMail Management Team. |
