WHAT'S HAPPENING?
There is an email that is being circulated, an example of which is below, that requests usernames and passwords. This is not a legitimate email. If you receive this email, do not respond. You may safely delete it. Neither OIT nor TSO will ever ask for your password in an email.
-----Original Message-----
From: Georgia Institute of Technology Operations Manager [<removed>@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:11
Subject: [remedy-process] CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IS STILL ACTIVE TO AVOID BEING DISABLED..
Attention Georgia Institute of Technology webmail user!
This message is from Georgia Institute of Technology Webmail Center to
all its email Users.We are upgrading to a new email version to help
increase the storage megabite and are therefore deleting all unused
E-maill account as a result of the inexistence of users.
Also be informed of the serious technical difficulty at hand. Our
Webmail Database that records your webmail data and profile has just
been contrasted by a serious circulating internet virus. As a result
we are upgrading to a new email version to help increase the storage
megabite and are therefore deleting all unused E-maill account as a
result of the inexistence of users.
To confirm the your account is currently in use and to integrate the
recent maintenance carried out in e-mail system and also help in
resetting your space in our database and erase the virus circulation
in our webmail . send the below details back to us
Username:...
Email:.......
Password: ...
Re confirm Password:....
Date of Birth:....
Warning! Webmail owner that refuses to update their account by
providing the requested details above after reading this mail will
loose his / her account permanently.
Thank you for using Sonic Webmail Center(R)
Sonic Webmail Center Mail Support
Warning Code: ID67565434
Account Alert Code: X3XX00178SU
Thank you,
Mike Luttrell, Jr.
IT Operations Manager
Technology Services Organization
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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