New Email Scam
We’ve seen 2 separate phishing emails sent out over the weekend. They are both very similar and ask for your username and password. The emails are sent from email@info.com, but replies will go to rest777@att.net. These are fairly obvious scams. What these criminals want is your username and password so they can use your email account to send out spam.
We will never email you to ask for your password. Ever.
Here are some samples:
Subject: We Want To Deactivate Your e-Mail Account. From: "e-Mail Technical Services." Reply-To: rest777@att.net
Dear e-Mail User, We are advising you to change the password of your email account in order to prevent any unauthorised account access following the network instruction we previously communicated that all Mailhub systems will undergo regularly scheduled maintenance. Access to your e-mail via the Webmail client will be unavailable for some time during this maintenance period. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center i.e homepage view. We shall be deleting old email accounts which are no longer active to create more space for new accounts users.we have also investigated a system wide security audit to improve and enhance our current security. In order to continue using our services you are require to update and re-comfirmed your email account details as requested below. To complete your account re-comfirmation,you must reply to this email immediately and enter your account details as requested below. Username : (**************) E-mail Login ID(**********) Password : (**************) Date of Birth :(**************) Future Password :(**************)(Option) Failure to do this will immediately render your account deactivated from our database and service will not be interrupted as important messages may as well be lost due to your declining to re-comfirmed your account details to us. We apologise for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period,but trusting that we are here to serve you better and providing more technology which revolves around email and internet. It is also pertinent,you understand that our primary concern is for our customers, and for the security of their files and data. COMFIRMATION CODE: -/93-1A388-480 Technical Support Team.
Subject: We Want To Deactivate Your e-Mail Account. From: "e-Mail Technical Services." Reply-To: rest777@att.net Dear Email User, We are advising you to change the password of your email account in order to prevent any unauthorised account access following the network instruction we previously communicated that all Mailhub systems will undergo regularly scheduled maintenance. Access to your e-mail via the Webmail client will be unavailable for some time during this maintenance period. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center i.e homepage view. We shall be deleting old email accounts which are no longer active to create more space for new accounts users.we have also investigated a system wide security audit to improve and enhance our current security. In order to continue using our services you are require to update and re-comfirmed your email account details as requested below. To complete your account re-comfirmation,you must reply to this email immediately and enter your account details as requested below. Username : (**************) E-mail Login ID(**********) Password : (**************) Date of Birth :(**************) Future Password :(**************)(Option) Failure to do this will immediately render your account deactivated from our database and service will not be interrupted as important messages may as well be lost due to your declining to re-comfirmed your account details to us. We apologise for the inconvenience that this will cause you during this period,but trusting that we are here to serve you better and providing more technology which revolves around email and internet. It is also pertinent,you understand that our primary concern is for our customers, and for the security of their files and data. COMFIRMATION CODE: -/93-1A388-480 Net Idea Technical Support
