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Friday, February 19, 2010

Phishing in Secondary Mail Account!

Email providers communicate with us through our alternate email account (another email account with secondary email id that you had given for communication), in case there is a problem, for example, Signing in difficulty, etc. Recently I received an email in my alternate account that my Web mail account (Primary) will be deactivated if I failed to send my email identity for confirmation. There was also a list of particulars in that mail that I had to send. As the time limit given in it was already over, I checked up my Web mail account immediately and found it to be intact and live! It is actually a tactic to get my personal information - Phishing! Beware of such phishing mails in your Secondary (alternate) email account Inbox. Do not respond to them in any form - email, phone or postal letter. First check your main Web mail account whether it is live or not, as I did. Give to the main Web mail provider a different User id for your Secondary (alternate) mail account that is not the same as that of your main Web mail account. Do not display the Secondary user id openly. Change often the Secondary user id for a given Web mail account. Delete the phishing mail both in the Inbox and the Trash forthwith.

Read the following exact copy of the contents of the Phishing Mail!

Deactivation Of Your Webmail Account.

Kindly note that we recently did some upgrade on our database.
During the upgrade there was an unusual responds code from your
email address requesting for deactivation. Verify to deactivate
or keep your email account active.

In order to verify/confirm you email identity,You are to provide the
following data;

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW;

First Name:____________________________
Last Name:_____________________________
Email Username:________________________
Email Password:________________________
Account Deactivation:__________________(specify yes to deactivate. No
to keep active)
Reason for Deactivation_____________(if yes)

Warning!!! In failure to verify your email account within 48hrs on
receiving this notification, your account will automatically be
deactivated

Thank you for using our Webmail!
Warning Code: ASPH8B02AXV

Kind regards,
Lakefield Service Team Management.
ABN 33
All rights reserved.


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