Thursday, December 10, 2009

Plenty of fraudulent phishing emails that try to get your username and password

There are plenty of SPAM emails going around these days, claiming to come from the support desk of your email provider, or some other place such as ebay or paypal. Usually, in one form or another, they ask that you reply to them with your username and password to take care of a problem, or they provide a link to a dodgy web site. DO NOT CLICK on the links, or DO NOT REPLY to the email. This is phishing, they simply want your account to abuse it. NEVER give out account information, without verification.
Examples:


Dear PayPal User,



We are currently under maintenance and we will like you to Update your account in other for you to be able to Send Money, Receive Money, and also Shop online with your PayPal account Click on this Link Below to Update Your Account.

CLICK HERE
Thanks For Your Co-Operation,

PayPal Account Department.




Your mailbox quota has been exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator, You are currently running on 20.9GB.



You may not be able to send or receive new mails until you re-validate your mailbox.



To re-activate your account please click the link below:

http://www.acc-central.com/


Thanks and we are sorry for the inconveniences

Local Host.



Your mailbox quota has been exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB

as set by your administrator, You are currently running on 20.9GB.

You may not be able to send or receive new mails until you re-validate
your mailbox.

To re-activate your account please click the link below

http://www.icebrrg.com/Public/ViewForm.aspx?formID=44302

Thanks and we are sorry for the inconveniences

Local host




We would like to inform you that we are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance and upgrade of our webmail service and as a result of this; our e-mail client has been changed and your
original password will be reset. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.

To maintain your e-mail account, you must reply to this email immediately, and provide the the following details of your account:

Account Name:
Current Password:
Contact Phone:

Failure to do this within the next forty-eight hours will immediately render your email account deactivated from our database.

For Help and Support, contact the Technical Support help desk at:technicalsupportteam20009@gmail.com

Thank you for using our webmail.

Webmail Service,
Technical Team.
©Networks All Rights Reserved.





Dear Webmail Account User,

This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail admin center
which periodically checks the size of inbox, The program is run
automatically to ensure no user inbox grows too large. If your inbox
becomes too large, you will be unable to receive new emails. Just before
this message was sent, you are currently running on 20.9 GB, You have has
exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB.

To help us re-set your Account SPACE on our database prior to maintain
your INBOX, you must reply to this e-mail providing us your the Below
information:

E-mail ( ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... )
Username/ID ( ... ... ... ... ... ... )
Current Password ( ... ...... ... ) Retype Password: ( ... ...... ... )

From this point you will be unable to receive new email as it will be
returned to the sender, Provide the above information to enable us help
reset your webmail immediately.

NOTE: Your Webmail Account Expire in Three (3) Days. After you read this
message, it is best to REPLY with the required information to upgrade
MailBox. Reply to this message immediately to Re activate your Account.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Webmail Help Desk. System Administrator
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Confirm Your Webmail Identities.

Your Webmail Quota Has Exceeded The Set Quota/Limit Which Is 20GB.
Your Are Currently Running On 23GB due to hidden files and folder on your
Mailbox.Please you are to follow the Below information to Validate Your
Mailbox And Increase Your Quota.

First Name:
Username/ID:
Password:
Confirm Password:

*Important*
Please provide all these information completely and correctlyotherwise due
to security reasons we may have to close your accounttemporarily.We have
been sending this notice to all our email accountowners and this is the
last notice/verification exercise.

Thanks
HELPDESK SUPPORT.



Dear Webmail User,
This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which
periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new messages are
received.
The program is run weekly to ensure no one's inbox grows too large. If
your inbox becomes too large, you will be unable to receive new email.
Just before this message was sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of
messages stored in your inbox on your Webmail. To help us re-set your
SPACE on our database prior to maintain your INBOX, you must reply to
this e-mail and enter your

Current User name (_________)
and Password(________ )

You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your
inbox size continues to be between 18 and 20 MB. If your inbox size
grows to 20 MB, then a program on Bates Webmaiwill move your oldest email
to a
folder in your home directory to ensure that you will continue to be
able to receive incoming email. You will be notified by email that this
has taken place. If your inbox grows to 25 MB, you will be unable to
receive new email as it will be returned to the sender.
After you read a message, it is best to REPLY and SAVE it to another
folder.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Webmail Help Desk