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• Even more phishing
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  A rather unconvincing phishing attempt has been circulating campus, but it was brought to my attention, so I wanted to pass it along to you, the CMU community.  This particular message shows all of the telltale signs of being a scam: the grammar is atrocious, the spelling is not much better, and the link goes quite obviously to a non-cmich site.

   

  Here's a copy of the message in question:

   

   

  From: Help Desk
  Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:46:56 PM
  Subject: Important Notice From Help desk

  Attn: Mail-Box User Quarantine Notification:
  
  This is to inform you that the Email Information Technology Services
  is migrating to a new spam filtering service, which improves the
  ability to identify and block spam,“phishing” attempts and other
  undesirable messages  that flood our email system on a daily basis and
  also a mail box user quarantine exercise is currently going on. we are
  carrying out a (inactive email-accounts / spam protecting)
  clean-up process to enable service upgrade efficiency.
  
  Please be informed that  we  will delete all mailbox account user that
  do not adhere to this notice. click on this link [link removed]
  for Quarantine exercise and  protection against spam and for secure
  upgrading. This will confirm your Mailbox login/usage Frequency:
  
  Web Support Team
  
                                     !!! WARNING !!!
  Failure to log out will allow others to access your account. Closing
  the browser window does NOT log you out properly.  To log out, please
  click one of the "Log out" icons in the browser window.

  Summary:

   

  Category: Email Scam Alerts!

  Published: 11/28/2011 3:28 PM