Phishing Attempt: Faculty Staff notification

SUMMARY: Phishing Attempt: Faculty Staff notification
POSTED ON: 03/31/2014
REPORTER: ITS Help Desk
START TIME: Mar 31 08:50 AM
END TIME: May 02 08:50 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.

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:

From: Idris Aliu <I.Aliu@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: 31 March 2014 16:51
To: Idris Aliu
Subject: Faculty Staff notification

Your mailbox is almost full.
465MB 500MB
Current size Maximum size
Please increase your mailbox quota size automatically by clicking on admin system <fastexperience.bravesites.com/index> and fill-out the necessary requirements to automatically increase your mailbox quota size.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You won't be able to send and receive mail messages at 480MB .

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