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BEWARE OF PHISHING SCAM THAT APPEARS TO COME FROM UM-DEARBORN
You may have received an email recently that appears to be a legitimate communication from the University. The message asks you to respond with private information or risk having your account deactivated. This message is a typical "phishing" scam, which often looks authentic and may appear to come from official sources. But the University and other institutions will never request secure and confidential information through email.
If you receive this message, delete it. Never respond with any personal information. If you provided your password, change it immediately to protect your account. If you have questions or need assistance, contact the ITS Help Desk at 313-593-4357.
More information is available at http://www.itd.umich.edu/news/2008winter/01112008scam.html.
A sample email is displayed below. (Note that return addresses were deleted to prevent accidental responses.)
_____________________________________________________
From: Techonlogy Services Help Desk
Date: June 8, 2009 4:19:17 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: University Michigan Dearborn Email Account Confirmation
Reply-To:
UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN DEARBORN EMAIL ACCOUNT UPGRADE
ATTENTION WEBMAIL USER,
We regret to announce to you that we will be making some vital
maintainance on our {UMD.UMICH.EDU} website. umd.umich.edu
During this process you might have login problems in signing into
your Online account, but to prevent this you have to confirm your
account immediately after you receive this notification.
To confirm and to keep your account active during and after this
process, please reply to this message with the below account
informations.
Failure to do this might cause a permanent deactivation of your user
account from our database to enable us create more spaces for new
users.
YOUR EDU. ACCOUNT CONFIRMATION
Name:
E-mail ID:
E-mail Password:
Departments:
Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed
your account details to the email address below.
Thanks for bearing with us.
University Michigan 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn Michigan 48128
Techonlogy Services Help Desk
Warning Code: 002671