Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “Administration iowatelecom.net”

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.

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From: ” Administration iowatelecom.net”
To:
Sent:
Subject: [Spam] Your profile will be locked in response to a complaint
received by the Administration

***This message was created automatically by mail-delivery software. Do
not reply to this message.***

Hello!
Your profile will be locked in response to a complaint received by the
Administration 29.01.2010 ã.
According to “paragraph 8 of the user agreement, iowatelecom.net
reserves
the right to suspend or terminate the provision of services
iowatelecom.net, promptly notifying the user.

Refute the statement may be, following this link:

If the application is not rejected within 7 days, your e-mail an account
will be blocked.
It has a number .

In the near future we will contact you.
It takes up to 3 days to process your request.
Thank you!
——————————–
Sincerely,
mail support service
iowatelecom.net

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