June 25, 2010

What, you again?

From the inbox:

Your email account has been reported for numerous spam activities from a foreign ip recently. As a result, Webmaster has received advice to suspend your account. However, you might not be the one promoting this Spam, as your email account might have been compromised.

To protect your account from sending spam mails, you are to confirm your true ownership of this account by providing your username/NetID_______ and PASSWORD______ as a reply to this message. On receipt of the requested information, the Webmaster email support shall block your account from Spam.

Failure to do this will violate the Email terms & conditions. This will render your account inactive.

NOTE: You will be send a password reset message in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.

Well now. My first clue that this thing was illegitimate was that it was addressed to "undisclosed recipients." The second clue: the "seven working days." But even more blatantly dumb is the name of the originator: Abuse Suuport Team abuse@webmaster.org.

I don't think I'll concern myself with this.

Posted by Linkmeister at June 25, 2010 07:54 PM | TrackBack
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