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EDU Account SPAM | Priority: MEDIUM |
| Published Date: March 17, 2008 | |
| Last updated: March 17, 2008 2:24 PM by Nathaniel Hall | |
| It was brought to our attention that some users received an e-mail asking for their username, password, and date of birth. DO NOT REPLY TO THE E-MAIL! This message has been circulating the Internet in hopes of obtaining passwords to send additional SPAM. The message reads: VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW
Dear Email Account Owner, This message is from educational messaging center to all our email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all our edu email accounts to create more space for new accounts. To prevent your edu account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a presently used account. We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners and this is the last notice/verification exercise. CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW Email Username : .......... ..... EMAIL Password : ................ Date of Birth : ................. Country or Territory : .......... Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. Thank you for using edu! Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ Thanks, Edu Account Upgrade Team OTC will never send e-mails asking you to reply with your password. If you have replied to this message or a similar one, please change your password on an OTC computer or through MyOTC. If you are not sure about the legitimacy of an e-mail, please forward the message to helpdesk@otc.edu. | |
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