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Phishing Attempt: Hawaii.edu Customer Care

SUMMARY: Phishing Attempt: Hawaii.edu Customer Care
POSTED ON: 09/21/2009
REPORTER: ITS Help Desk (help@hawaii.edu)
START TIME: Sep 21 09:33 AM
END TIME: Oct 22 09:33 AM
DESCRIPTION: A phishing attempt has been reported supposedly from the University of Hawaii. Please do NOT reply to the email or click on the link. Do NOT submit your personal information.

See: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/898 for reporting a new/suspicious email targeting UH usernames.

Sample message:

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:30:36 +0200
From: "SITE ADMINISTRATOR." <siteadministrator@hawaii.edu
Subject: Hawaii.edu Customer Care
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Reply-to: sitecare@ymail.com

Dear Customer,

This Email is from Hawaii.edu Customer Care and we are sending it to
every Hawaii.edu Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having
congestion's due to the anonymous registration of Hawaii.edu accounts
so we are shutting down some Hawaii.edu accounts and your account was
among those to be deleted. We are sending you this email so that you
can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account.

If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the
space below. Your User name,password,date of birth and your country
information would be needed to verify your account, Due to the
congestion in all mail users and removal of all unused Hawaii.edu
Accounts.

Hawaii.edu would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have
to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Log in Information below
after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended
within 24 hours for security reasons.

*Username :..............
*Password :..............
*Date of Birth :..................
*Country or Territory: ........

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention
to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after
48 Hours of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.

Thanks.
Hawaii.edu Administrator.