Examples of Phishing Email Messages Recently Received at UCSF

From: "Name, Fake" <Fake.name@ucsf.org>

To: "x" <x>

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:17:43 -0800

Subject: Mailbox Quota Exceeded!!!

IT Service,

You have exceeded the limit of your mailbox set by your IT service, and you will be having problems in sending and recieving mails. To= prevent this, please click on the link below to reset your account.

http://emailserverupdate.com<http://emailserverupdate.com/>

Failure to do this, will result in limited access to your mailbox.

Warning!!! Do not send your username and password to anyone via email.

Regards,

IT Service.

From: helpdesk@ucsf.edu

Date:  October 21, 2009 6:50:14 PM PDT

To: x

Subject: Urgent Information From IT Helpdesk

Reply-To: no-reply@ucsf.edu

Immediate Attention To Staff/Student Of University of California, San Francisco Please be advised that there will be scheduled maintenance on the Internet and Intranet Web servers as well as the EMail Servers on Saturday, October 24, 2009 beginning at 9:00 p.m. until approximately 12:00 midnight. All web and mail services will be interrupted during this time period, For you not to have problem signing into your account, you are adviced to click this link and follow the instructions on it.

http://onlineupgrades.net/ContactUs.html

Failure to do this will leads to immediate suspenction of your email account and later deactivated.

This is a scheduled maintenance period that will be occuring each month, due to the amount of junk email our staff/student are receiving. If you have any questions, please contact the IT Helpdesk.

Thank you,

IT Helpdesk

© University of California, San Francisco | Webmaster

From: Francesca Nestande [mailto:nestaf@blair.edu]

Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:11 AM

Subject: Mailbox Update

Attn: Faculty/Staff/Students,

This is to inform you that your mailbox will soon be de-activated by your System Administrator due to an unusual activity detected in your mailbox. We noticed that webmail account has been compromised by spammers. It seems they have gained access to webmail accounts and have been using it for illegal internet activities.

The center is currently performing maintenance and upgrading it's data base. We intend upgrading our Email Security Server for better online services hence you may not be able to receive new mail until your mailbox is upgraded. Please Click the link below to validate your mailbox and upgrade your account.

http://zen.vistapanel.net/feedback/feedback.html

If your mailbox becomes de-activated for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual closure of your mailbox.

The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any information contained herein by any other person is not authorized.

From: "Rita.Daguillard@dot.gov" <Rita.Daguillard@dot.gov>

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:14:18 -0700

Subject: Webmail Quota Has Exceeded The Set Limit

Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator,you are currently running on 20.9GB, you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your mailbox.

To re-validate your mailbox please click the link below:

http://orientuser.c.la/

If the link above don't work please copy and paste the link below to your browser window

http://orientuser.c.la/

Thanks

System Administrator

Rita Daguillard

We are sending it to every user for safety/maintainance from spam mails.

From: ©University of California  info@ucsf.edu
Reply-To: <account.unitq12@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:52:56 -0700
Subject: Dear ucsf.edu  Account User

Dear ucsf.edu  Account User,

This Email is from (ucsf.edu ) help desk and we are sending it to every of
(ucsf.edu ) Accounts user for safety/maintainance from spam mails.
 we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of (
ucsf.edu )accounts so we are shutting down some (ucsf.edu )
accounts and youraccount was among those to be that needs to be
re -updated due to this condition.

We  are sending you this email so that you can verify and in order to
for safety and maintainance of your account.If you are still interested
please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User
name,password,date of birth and your country information would be needed
to verify your account.

* Username: (........ )(Compulsory)
* Password: (...........)(Compulsory)
* Date of Birth: (............) (optional)
* Country Or Territory: ...........) (optional)

Before sending your account details to us, you are advise to Login into this
Link below:exchange.ucsf.edu

Note that if your account do Login send us the details, if otherwise it means
it has already been deleted. Sorry for the inconvinence this might cause you
we are only trying to make sure you browse fine with our accounts.

All you have to do is Click Reply and supply the information above,
your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for
your attention to this request.Once again We apologize for any
inconveniences.Warning!!! Account users that refuses to update his/her
account after
7 Days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

©University of California, San Francisco(ucsf.edu)