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Phishing emails
From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:18:47 +1200
Greetings Our email logs show email being sent yesterday evening from your account to the reply-to address in a recent scam which tried to dupe people into disclosing their email usercode and passwords. I am aware that this may be an 'out of office' response or something else automated but I have no way of telling from the information I have available so I have to The email was blocked but you should be aware the these things are scams. You will never be asked to reveal your password by anyone who is legitimate. Never send your login credentials to any one by email or any other means and be very suspicious of emails that ask you to "verify" your credentials by going to a web site. The chances are the web site is a fake even if it looks the same as the usual one. All UoA web sites that ask for upi and password are encrypted (thy should display the padlock symbol). Cheers, Russell Fulton Information Security Officer
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