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Phishing E-mail Notice!!

We have received several phishing e-mails in the last week. Universities are quite often targeted for these e-mails. Unfortunately we have had a few people respond to these messages. Because we've had people respond with their credentials, those compromised accounts were used to send spam e-mail messages to large numbers of e-mail accounts. This spamming has caused our e-mail domain; uwplatt.edu to be blocked by several providers. We are working as quickly as possible to re-secure these accounts and submit requests for removal of our domain from the block list of the provider. Removal from the blocklist can vary from a few minutes to 7 days. We are doing everything from a technical standpoint we can to try to prevent our email being blocked by other domains. It is important that the University community works together to prevent these issues by remembering the following:

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) reminds you that e-mail messages asking for your personal information are bogus. NEVER respond to an e-mail asking for your personal information. OIT and UW-Platteville would NEVER ask you for personal information by e-mail. DO NOT, under any circumstances, provide your username, password or birth date by e-mail. DELETE such fake messages immediately.


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What is Phishing?- Phishing is the practice of requesting confidentional information over e-mail under false pretenses in order to obtain credit card numbers, passwords or other personal data.

The University community is often a target of these types of e-mail messages. The Office of Information Technology (OIT) reminds you that e-mail messages asking for your personal information are bogus. NEVER respond to an e-mail asking for your personal information. OIT and UW-Platteville would NEVER ask you for personal information by e-mail. DO NOT, under any circumstances, provide your username, password or birth date by e-mail. DELETE such fake messages immediately.

What happens if I do respond to a phishing e-mail?
Several things can happen and have happened to those responding to phishing e-mails with their UWP credentials.


You should never share your UWP credentials (NetID/password) with anyone. If you do respond to a phishing e-mail, once we learn your account is compromised, we will change your password immediately. This causes temporary loss of access to your account until you can be notified.

If you do respond to a phishing e-mail or have any questions contact the Help Desk or ResNet immediately. Thank you. (Updated 6/29/2009)


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