Advisories & Alerts

Tuesday October 30 2012 Phishing scam

Subject: RE-VALIDATE YOUR WEB ACCOUNT Dear Webmail Account Owner, This Email is from the Webmail System Administrator; we wish to bring to your notice the Condition of your email account. We have just noticed that you have exceeded your email Database limit of 500 MB quota and your email IP is causing conflict because it […]

Phishing attempt alert for Monday October 29, 2012

Subject: IT Service Desk Dear York- Webmail Subscriber, We are currently carrying out maintenance and upgrade of our York Webmail service and as a result of this;our E-mail client has been changed and your original password will be reset. please provide us your educ\user name:(******) Password(******) for reactivation. Thanks for using York University's Web services […]

Phishing email Alert_October 25 2012

Subject: Your Account Has Been Limited Your two incoming mails where placed on pending status due to the recent upgrade to our database, In order to receive the messages Click the below link to login and wait for responds. https://xxx/spreadsheet?formkey=dDB1RkcwanZIQjhGUlB0NUJBcnFxRkE6MQ Your Account Has Been Limited -- This email was Anti Virus checked by Astaro Security […]

CSE webmail phishing attempt. Do NOT respond!

Sample fraudulent email --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Yorku account user. Please be informed that we want to improve our webmail in a couple of days from now, and your account must be reactivated to finish activating your account, you must login to your account again by clicking on the link below; http://***/imp/login5085.htm Failure to upgrade your webmail […]

Phishing Email Spotted. Do NOT Respond.

Do NOT respond to the following phish/fraudulent email.   Subject: Attention: yorku.ca user We are currently engaged in account maintenance service. As a subscriber, you are required to confirm your continued membership. Failure to confirm your continued membership will lead to service suspension. Click here to Login and confirm in one simple step.This is to […]

New Scam/Phishing email. Beware!

Dear User, Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator,you are currently running on 20.9GB, you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your mailbox. To re-validate your mailbox click the link below. http://***l/e8ll6 Thanks You, YORKU.CA System Administrator. Warning!!! Any account […]