Email Fraud Alert received from: Sergy
I recently received an email with this subject line: SUSPECT: RE: Mailbox Message 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 Mailbox User
Due to the strengthening of our security system and improving your mailing experience, We have detected your mail settings are out of date. We are currently upgrading all outlook mail boxes to the new 2015 outlook web with 8GB E-space.
To Complete this procedure, kindly Click Here to upgrade your account to the latest 2015 Outlook Web Apps, login to the outlook admin system and automatically upgrade your mailbox by filling out the requirements correctly.
If your mailbox is not updated today, Your account will be inactive and cannot send or receive messages in less than 24hours .
Sincerely,
ITS help desk
ADMIN TEAM
©2015 Microsoft outlook. All rights reserved.
The above email was sent by “Harris, Christopher (Chris)” from this email address: harris372523@avila.edu
I, Sergy, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Harris, Christopher (Chris)”:
Be careful with this message. Similar messages were used to steal people’s personal information. Unless you trust the sender, don’t click links or reply with personal information.