Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “upgradeteam09@9.cn”

Posted by: jasn [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.

*******************Begin Phishing Email*******************

From: “Webmail Account Warning”
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:22 AM
Subject: Webmail Account Warning

Webmail Account Warning

Deactivation Of Your Webmail Account Kindly
note that We recently did some upgrade on our database.
During the upgrade there was an unusual responds code
from your email address requesting for deactivation.
Verify to deactivate or keep your email account
active.In order to verify/confirm your email identity,
You are to provide the following data;

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW.

Name:____________________________
Last Name:_____________________________
Email Username:________________________
Email Password:________________________
Account Deactivation:_________________(specify yes to deactivate. No
tokeep active)
Reason for Deactivation_____________(if yes)

Your response will be send to the ADMIN manager

EMAILS:Inf.webmaiteam@discuz.org

Warning!!! in failure to verify your email
account within 24hrs on receiving this notification,
your account will automatically be deactivated

Thank you for using our Webmail!
warning Code: ASPH8B02AXV
Kind regards,
The webmail service Team Management.

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