Some members of the W&L community have received the following fraudulent e-mail. Please be cautious about clicking links in e-mail, or providing confidential information in response to such e-mails. Forward any unwanted e-mails to spam@wlu.edu , which will help W&L’s automated automated service to identify and block fraudulent and unwanted e-mail. If in doubt about the authenticity of any message, contact the Information Desk (540-458-4357 or help@wlu.edu).
Fraudulent e-mail:
From: Helpdesk Office
[helpdesk@wlu.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:03 AM
Subject: UPDATE YOUR WEBMAIL NOW
Dear Webmail User,
With Due respect, The Webmail Technical Crew is Presently Under going
Account’s Update which will help the Webmail service to be very much Active
and better and your Account that has Exceeded it’s Quota’s. You are hereby
Requested to Update your Account Now in order not to loose your webmail
Account, To Update your Account now do make sure you
<Click Here>
UPDATE YOUR WEBMAIL NOW
Failure to Update your webmail account Now will resolve to Loosing your
Webmail Account.
Thanks,
WEBMAIL TECHNICAL CREW
This is your basic Phishing type email.
It is unlikely it came from on campus, but instead from somewhere off campus.
I doubt that anyone with that command of basic grammar and spelling would ever be allowed to hold a WLU account, lol.
This e-mail uses some trickery to make it appear that it’s coming from a legitimate Washington and Lee address. This is a common tactic of those who send fraudulent e-mail to extract personal information. The takeaway is, don’t trust e-mail that doesn’t seem right, even if it appears to come from a legitimate source.
If this email is coming from a wlu account, I would hope that the perpetrator of this can be found and that s/he will be SEVERELY punished.