ISU Outages & Alerts
- 10/22/2009 7:30amPhishing: LAST UPDATE OF THE YEAR
- It has been reported to the Help Desk that some people have received the following phishing email.
This fake email was not sent by Illinois State University. The University will never ask for your password in this manner via email. If you receive this email, do not reply to it. Never send your password in email. For more info, see [1364] Recognizing "ILSTU TEAM" phishing scam emails.
Important: If you replied with your password, you should immediately change your password via the ULID Password Change web page. If you are unable to change your password, you may reset it yourself using the Password Self-Reset web page. Or you may have your password reset in person with your University ID at the Help Desk office in Julian Hall 115.
Here is a sample received by the Help Desk:
Attn: Web mail Account subscriber
This message is from web mail admin messaging center to all web mail
account
owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account
center.
We are canceling unused web mail email account to create more space
for new accounts.
To prevent your account from closing you will have to update
it below to know it's status as a currently used account.
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Your Full Name: =======================
Email User name : =======================
Email Password : =======================
Date of Birth : =======================
Warning!!! Any account owner that refuses to update his/her
account within Three days of this update notification will loose
his/her account permanently.
Thank you for using web mail Support Team
Warning Code :ID67565434