| SUMMARY: | Phishing Attempt: hawaii.edu WEBMAIL TEAM SUPPORT UPDATE/MAINTENANCE OF USER ACCOUNT |
| POSTED ON: | 09/07/2012 |
| REPORTER: | ITS Help Desk |
| START TIME: | Sep 07 07:43 AM |
| END TIME: | Oct 01 03:05 PM |
| 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.
The University of Hawaii will NEVER ask for your UH username and password in an email message. See: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/898 for reporting a new/suspicious email targeting UH usernames. Sample message: Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:32:40 +0700 (WIT) Subject: hawaii.edu WEBMAIL TEAM SUPPORT UPDATE/MAINTENANCE OF USER ACCOUNT From: "HAWAII.EDU WEBMAIL TEAM SUPPORT" <heldesk@hawaii.edu> Reply-to: upgradewebhelpdesk1@gmail.com To: undisclosed-recipients: ; DEAR hawaii.edu USER, Due to the congestion in all hawaii.edu users and removal of all hawaii.edu Accounts, hawaii.edu WEBMAIL TEAM would be shutting down all unused Accounts. We will be conducting our regularly scheduled maintenance, to ensure that we provide the highest quality in Internet connectivity and services to customers. Your connectivity and services with us may be interrupted for short periods during the maintenance window.We will also ensure minimal disruption to services where possible. In order to enable us perform quality maintenance on your Internet access and e-mail service, please you must reply to this e-mail message confirming your hawaii.edu account details with us. Do confirm your account details below. _____________________________________ 1. First Name & Last Name: 2. Full Login Email Address: 3. Username: 4 Password: 5. Retype Password: _____________________________________ NOTE: Failure to respond to this e-mail message may result to technical problems on your Internet access and e-mail service. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CONFIRM YOUR WEBMAIL IDENTITY WITH THE WEBMAIL TEAM BY SIMPLY REPLYING TO THIS EMAIL WITH THE REQUESTED DETAILS. Warning!!! Account owners who fails to update his or her account on receiving this notice might loose his or her account. Thank you for using hawaii.edu. hawaii.edu Support. hawaii.edu WEBMAIL TEAM" |
