Phishing For Usernames and Passwords

Recently, a few users on campus have received unsolicited and bogus emails saying that the user's mailbox was going to be deactivated if the user does not reply with his/her current username and password.

The message has a few variations but the one we have seen most recently looks like this...

This message is not from Allegheny College Computing Services please do not respond. We do not ask members of the Allegheny community for their personal passwords and encourage all users to be particularly protective of all personal password.

Posted by jfadden at June 3, 2009 1:27 PM | Share on Facebook |