Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “support@iowatelecom.net”
Posted by: jasn [ITS Security] under Scams
March 10, 2010
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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Attn. Iowatelecom Email Users,
Account Upgrade/Maintenance All Iowatelecom Users
We will be making some vital maintainance on our Iowatelecom accounts. During this process you might have login problems signing into your Iowatelecom account.
To confirm and to keep your Iowatelecom webmail active during and after this process, please reply to this message with the below Iowatelecom Webmail account information’s. Failure to do this might cause a permanent deactivation of your Iowatelecom Webmail account from our database.Send your Iowatelecom Webmail account for confirmation stating.
Email Address:
Password:Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed your account details. We thank you for your prompt attention to this notification. Please be informed that this is a security measure intended to help protect your Iowatelecom Webmail account{s}. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Iowatelecom Technical Support
Copyright 2009 Iowatelecom. All Rights Reserved.
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