Phishing is Phishing is a common experience for email users these days. Metropolia email users often receive requests for their network/email passwords, user IDs, and other private data. Some of these emails can be very convincing and appear to be from Metropolia ITS Staff.
However, you should know that ITS will never, ever request your password! Emails requesting your password or other personal data should simply be DELETED upon receipt.
Below are newest message of phishing email received here at Metropolia and should be deleted upon receipt.
This Message is from the Server Messaging Center to all Universities Webmail
Subscribers. We are currently changing our Email System from April 20th 2010.
We will launch Online GX-5 Webmail. Please provide the Informations below, so
we can upgrade your webmail to the new system
Full Names: .....................
Email Username: ................
Email Password: ................
Date of Birth: .................
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This E-mail is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended
Recipient please accept our apologies; Please do not Disclose, Copy or
distribute Information in this E-mail or take any action in Reliance on its
contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be Unlawful. Please inform
us that this Message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your
Co-operation. Copyright ©2010. All Rights are resserved.
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