Montazuma Telephone Co Phishing Scam: “webmail.hostmaster05@gmail.com”

Posted by: Nuuruvalar [ITS Security] under Scams

Iowa Telecom has received reports of a phishing email scam that targets Montezuma Telephone Co (zumatel.net) users. This is a fake email and is not sent from, or in any way associated with, Iowa Telecom or Montezuma Telephone Co. 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 Montezuma Telephone Co at 641-623-5654 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 <a href=”http://security.iowatelecom.net/?page_id=242″>send them to us</a>, we will add them to this list to warn other customers.

Your friendly neighborhood Iowa Telecom Abuse Team.

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From: webmail.hostmaster05@gmail.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: September 13, 2009 8:53:04 AM CDT
Subject: Montezuma - Telephone and Cable Company Schedule Upgrade

Attention ,

Montezuma - Telephone and Cable Company information technology
Service ( ITS )wishes to inform you as a matter of urgency that we are
undertaking some essential, but extensive,maintenance to improve our
webmail this weekend. The maintenance is part of our ongoing efforts
to give you the best Mail service we can.The need to be updated as
part of our continuing commitment is to protect your account and to
reduce the instance of spam mails on our webmail stream

Beginning the end of Sunday 13th Sept (PDT) you may experience
problems accessing your webmail account.To avoid your account been
affected,Due to this, to ensure that your service is not
interrupted,we request you to confirm and update your webmail details
as required Below..Email:(____)Username(____)Password(_____)Date of
birth(_____)Contact Address(____)Phone number (____)to prevent poor
performance, it should be available again by midday Tuesday 15th
Sept (PDT)

We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience

:::::: Montezuma - Telephone and Cable Company ::::::
Mail Technical Services
http://webmail.zumatel.net

NB: We request your user name and password for Identification purpose
only.Thanks for confirming your Webmail details as Upgrade process is
been carried out by the ITS web team…

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