Phishing
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In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication, such as e-mail.
Never send any sensitive information (such your password) in an e-mail, even if you know who you are sending it to.
Examples of phishing e-mails
Following are some phishing e-mails that we have seen. Never reply to an e-mail that resembles one of these in any way. If you have any questions or are unsure whether an e-mail is a phishing e-mail, please call the Technology Helpline at x6111.
Example 1
This mail is to inform all our webmail users that we will be maintaining and upgrading our website in a couple of days from now.
As a Subscriber you are required to send us your Email account details to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.
Be informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning to enable us create more space. You are to send your email account details which are as follows:
- User Name:
- Password:
- Date of birth:
- webmail Login:
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your webmail before sending us the required information.
WARNING: Any one that receive's this email and failed to respond to the mail will be deactivated immediately from our database.
Example 2
Dear: Email User.
We wish to bring to the notice of our Email Users about the on going email upgrading exercise in our email database, we wish to inform you that your email need to be upgraded. Note that any email account that fail to be upgraded is bound to be deleted from our email data base, in order for your email to be upgraded and not deleted, you are to enter your email PASSWORD and ID in the space provided (.........), send Your upgrading information to: emailaddress@domainname.com
Thank you for using our Webmail Service.
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