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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.
Phishing E-mails - Don't Get Hooked!
Watch this video. Would you take the bait?
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.
- Your account is compromised, and the person can access your e-mail, PeopleSoft data, and other confidential data you may have access to.
- Your account may be used to send spam messages from uwplatt.edu domain, which can cause outside providers such as AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. to blacklist any e-mail sent from a uwplatt.edu account.
- Spam e-mail being sent from your account causes the mail delivery queue to back up. Due to the high number of outgoing spam messages, valid e-mail from uwplatt.edu accounts is delayed.
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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