calmail phishing

so, when u become a student at berkeley u have to set up an account @berkeley.edu

anyway, somehow, tons of ppl seem to get ur address, so ive been getin all kinds of emails from frats to join them n other stuff.

then i got an email from some unknown source

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Attn: Faculty/Staff/Students,

This message is from calmail berkeley.edu IT Help Desk to all berkeley.edu
webmail account owners.

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.

You are to send us your account information immediately to enable us
reset your account. A new password will be sent to you once this is
done.

Send the information as follows

*Username:
*Password:
*Alternate email:

In order to ensure you do not experience service interruptions,
please reply this email immediately and provide the following
information above to prevent your account from being deactivated
from our database.

Thank you for using our online services.




so, i sent an email to consult@berkeley.edu and was pleased to get a reply 2 days later.

Hello,

Thank you for the report. This is another phishing attempt. Please do
not respond or provide any information they requested of you.

We want to remind our users that CalMail never asks for passwords via
emails and we have taken action to blocked the phisher.

We are currently blocking this reply to address.

For more information, please take a look at:
https://calmail.berkeley.edu/docs/phishing.html


If you have any more concerns, questions or issues, feel free to contact
us either by phone or email.

Email: consult@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642 - 8500 press opt.2 then opt.1



Not bad la, 2 days later, i was thinkin i wouldnt get a reply.





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