If this came from off campus (sbcglobal.net, gmail.com or whatever is in the
full email headers), it should be reported to the source site so they can
take action to close the email account.
You may also report it to [log in to unmask] per
http://techbase.msu.edu/article.asp?id=4194 to alert the MSU email team that
these emails are occurring.
Joe
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Joe Budzyn [log in to unmask]
301 Computer Center Ph: (517) 432-7448
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:11:19AM -0500, Byers, Sharon wrote:
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> I search for “spam” on msu.edu
> and didn’t find where these should be forwarded. It would be helpful if
> that address could be added to MSU keywords.
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> Hi. I just wanted to let you know
> I got an email asking for my MSU username, password and date of birth and they
> said it was from MSU Account Billing. I just wanted to let you
> know. Here is a copy of the message:
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> Dear MSU Webmail Subscriber,
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> We are currently verifying our subscribers email accounts in order to increase
> the Efficiency of our webmail features. To Join in the Recent Upgrade Taking
> Place at MSU Webmail,You must Reply to this email by Confirming your account
> details below.
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> UserName:
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> Password:
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> Date Of Birth:
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> Failure to do this will immediately render your Web-email address deactivated
> from our database.
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> Thanks for using MSU.EDU.
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> MSU Account Billing.
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> The email it came from was
> [log in to unmask]
> and if someone was to reply to the email it would go to
> [log in to unmask]
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> I just wanted to contact someone at the university to see if
> someone would look into this becasue if a student didn't realize this was a
> scam, who knows what they would use such information for. Thank you for your
> time.
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