Iowa Telecom Phishing Scam: “Iowa Telecom”

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 emails 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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Account Department!

Iowa Telecom

Upgrade/Maintenance All iowatelecom.net Email Accounts

We regret to announce to you that we will be making some system
maintenance on our iowatelecom.net Webmail account. During this process
you might have login problems in signing into your iowatelecom.net Webmail
account, but to prevent this you have to confirm your account immediately
after you receive this notification.

To confirm and to keep your iowatelecom.net webmail active during and
after this process, please reply to this message with the below
iowatelecom.net Webmail account information. Failure to do this might
cause a permanent deactivation of your iowatelecom.net Webmail account
from our data base to enable us create more spaces for the 2010 session.

Send your iowatelecom.net Webmail account for confirmation stating:

* iowatelecom.net username:
* Password:
* Date of Birth:

Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed
your account details. We thank you for your prompt attention to this
notification.

Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect
your iowatelecom.net Webmail account.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Iowa Telecom
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