Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “helpdesk@iowatelecom.net”
Posted by: Nuuruvalar [ITS Security] under Scams
July 9, 2009
Iowa Telecom has received reports of a phishing email scam that targets Iowa Telecom users. This is a fake email and is not sent from, or in any way associated with, Iowa Telecom. The actual phishing email is displayed below. For more information on this type of scam mail please see Phishing 101. DO NOT respond to this email with any information.
If you have responded to this email:
1. Call Iowa Telecom technical support to have your password changed. It is very important that your new password does not resemble the old password at all. The closer the new password is to the old password, the more likely they will be able to guess your new one.
2. If you see more email like this, please feel free to send them to us, we will add them to this list to warn other customers.
Your friendly neighborhood Iowa Telecom Abuse Team.
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From: Iowatelecom Technical Support [mailto:helpdesk@iowatelecom.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:18 PM
Subject: Iowatelecom Account Upgrade/Maintenance.Attn. Iowatelecom Webmail Users,
Iowatelecom Account Upgrade/Maintenance. Final Notification.
We regret to announce to you that we will be making some vital maintenance on our Iowatelecom Webmail account. During this process you might have login problems in signing into your Iowatelecom account, but to prevent this you have to confirm your account immediately after you receive this notification.
To confirm and to keep your Iowatelecom Webmail account active during and after this process, please reply to this message with the below account information’s. Failure to do this might cause a permanent deactivation of your Iowatelecom webmail account from our database to enable us create more spaces for up coming subscribers.
To confirm your account, send your Iowatelecom webmail account stating:
Email Address:
Password:Your Iowatelecom account shall remain active after we have successfully confirmed and upgraded your account.
Thank you for your swift response to this notification we apologize for any inconvenience.
Iowatelecom Technical Support
Copyright 2009 - Iowatelecom Communciations - All Rights Reserved.
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