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A big warning to email users
around the world!
THIS is a warning to all businesses
about yet another fake email. This email is not as sophisticated as most of the
fake emails of late and is a text only email.
The email comes from an account that displays as:-
"Web-mail Team Centre" and the email address is:- iti.karanjalad@dvet.maharashtra.gov.in.
This email address has been associated with the "UK/Bonanza" scam
that promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance
money sitting in some bank account, etc. to its recipient. We have spotted a new
phishing email doing the rounds.
This email tries to get you to open up your email account to
criminals by asking for your email access information. If you receive this
email, we suggest, if you are in the UK, you should send it to the Police via
fowarding it to:-
Phishing@CityOfLondon.Police.UK and then
delete it. Do not reply to this email or open any attachments this email might
have or any like it. Sadly, many people do and it can become huge problems for
keeping your personal information safe and for businesses keeping both staff and
customers accounts safe. This email
subject reads:- "Mail quota" and the email body (content) reads:-
"Your Mail quota has reached 98-GB limit, you might not be able to send or
receive all messages and updates until you re-validate your mailbox. To
re-validate your mailbox, Kindly Submit the below of your mailbox details for
re-confirmation:
{user-name :
{Password :
{Confirm Password :
Failure to reconfirm your account, your web-mail account will be disconnected
from our server, we apologize for the inconvenience caused
Best Service
Web-mail Team"
Things to spot in emails are:-
1. Check to see if email is from your email provider, even if it
is, or looks like it is, do not trust it!
2. Check the email address and reply email address are the same.
3. Contact your email provider, but do not use the information on that email.
Use the information you normally use!
4. What does the account say? Signing off the email with things like:-
"Best Service" and "Web-mail Team" should raise warning
flags.
5. Email providers never ask for your user name and password to
"re-validate your mailbox" on an email or via a phone call to you. If
they do, change your provider! More
advice on how you can protect yourself and your business from scam emails and
other forms of cyber crime can be found online on the- Metropolitan Police Cyber
Crime Unit's
website. You can also go to the UK's
leading awareness resource website, that helps you find out more about reporting
and preventing fraud, abuse and other issues encountered online. That
website is provided by
GetSafeOnline.Org and alerts can be found
via their Twitter
Page
@GetSafeOnline. |
