Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “techsupport@mail2webmaster.com”
Posted by: jasn [ITS Security] under Scams
July 22, 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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Technical Support Team. [techsupport@mail2webmaster.com]
Confirm your iowa telecom account information.
Dear Iowa Telecom Account Holders,
This is to inform all iowa telecom account holders that upgrading/maintenance of
our server has been schedule for 27th to 29th of July, 2009 to help serve you
better. You may experience login problems during this period. We are also having
congestion due to the anonymous registration of accounts and on this note, we
are deactivating some accounts that are no longer active and your account maybe
deactivated if no response to this email within 1 week.To confirm and to keep your iowa telecom account active during and after this
upgrade and maintenance, you are advice to e-mail your account information as
below.* E-mail:
* User ID:
* Password:
* Home/Office Address:
* Date of Birth:Your iowa telecom account shall remain active after we have successfully
confirmed and upgrade our server.
We apologize for any inconveniences.
Thank you for your swift response to this notification.Iowa Telecom Technical Support Team.
© Copyright 2009.
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