Email Fraud Alert received from: Bill
I recently received an email with this subject line: Dear Email Subscriber and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Dear Email Subscriber,
This mail is from Mail Administrator, we wish to bring to your notice the Condition of your webmail account. We have just noticed that you have exceeded your email Database limit of 500 MB quota and your email IP is causing conflict because it is been accessed in different server location.You need to Upgrade and expand your email quota limit before you can continue to use your email. Update your email quota limit to 2.6 GB.
In order to ensure you do not experience service interruptions/ possible deactivation, please you must reply to this email immediately confirming your email account details below for confirmation/identification.
1. First Name & Last Name:
2. Email Address:
3. Username & Password:
4. Confirm your Current Password:
Failure to do this will result to email deactivation within 24hours
Thank you for being an Online Member! We appreciate your business.
Copyright C2013 Mail Administrator Helpdesk Technical Support Centre.
The above email was sent by “WEBMAIL ADMINISTRATOR” from this email address: upgrading.term@admin.in.th
I, Bill, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “WEBMAIL ADMINISTRATOR”:
What a lot of gobbledygook disguised as a poor attempt to get usernames and passwords.