Subject: CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
To: Angry Professor
Dear Lsu.edu Subscriber,
We are currently carrying-out a mentainace process to your lsu.edu account, to complete this process you must reply to this email immediately,Your email address here (*********) and enter your password here (*********) if you are the rightful owner of this account.
Reply to Email: spamalert1@yahoo.com
This process we help us to fight against spam mails. Failure to summit your password, will render your email address in-active from our database.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your lsu.edu account at: https://webmail.lsu.edu/
NOTE: You will be send a password reset messenge in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.
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THE LSU.EDU SUPPORT TEAM
11 comments:
I've gotten at least 3 or 4 copies of that email over the last few months. People do fall for it...
Some people fall for this. Strange, isn't it.
I usually go to the URL, enter a fake username, and put an obscenity as the password.
This is why I adore 419eater.com. They pay back these scammers ten-fold and that, I feel, is the least they deserve. It's a pity that people still fall for this sometimes.
It appears one of your students has found him/herself a career.
For every thousand people who are web savvy and not completely moronic, there's one who is perfectly ripe for this kind of phishing scam, and they tend to deserve a hook through the lip.
Apparently .edu email addresses are in high demand by spammers because the tend to slip through spam filters. The Washington Post ran an article about this about 2 weeks ago. I am in awe that people still fall prey to these phishing expeditions.
I particularly liked the "mentainace process" reference.
There days the only thing you can do is laugh at stuff like this.
Tis has nothing to do with the post but I though you might enjoy it.
http://idle.slashdot.org/idle/08/05/24/1335258.shtml?tid=133
Most recent anonymous: That's very interesting. A few weeks ago I got a spam email in my edu account from another edu account (this one was a foreign lottery scam, rather than a password stealing scam). It seemed unlikely to me that the actual owners of the account were scamming people, since they would be so obviously traceable. At the time I thought they had perhaps gotten a virus, but now I'm wondering if they fell for a phishing email like this one.
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