Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “technicalsupport@iowatelecom.net”

Posted by: Nuuruvalar [ITS Security] under Scams

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: “Technical Support”
To:
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:37 PM
Subject: Maintenance schedule.

Dear Subscriber,

This is to inform all Iowa Telecom webmail account holders that
upgrading/maintenance of our server has been schedule for August 18, 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accounts and on this note, we are deactivating some accounts that are no
longer active and your account may be deactivated if no response to this
e-mail within one week.

To confirm and keep your Iowa Telecom webmail account active during and
after this upgrade and maintenance, you are advise 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 inconvenience.

Thank you for your swift response to this notification.

Iowa Telecom Technical Support
Copyright © 2009 Iowa Telecom Inc.
All rights reserved.

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