Below is an actual phishing email.  Note, the IT department will never ask for your

username or password via email. Do not respond. Just delete.

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 3:49:37 EST "Webmail Support Team" wrote:
Attn Student/Staff,

This mail is to inform all our university Student/Staff that we will be
upgrading our Webmail site. Due to this maintainance, subscribers of our
webmail site are required to send us email account details to enable us
know if they are still making use of their mail box.
 Further more be informed that we will not hesitate to delete all email
accounts that are not functioning, to create more space for new users.
 Please send us your email account details as follows for confirmation.
Once it is confirmed you will have no problem signing into your account
after the upgrade:
 
*E-mail:
*User Name:
*Password:
 Failure to do this will leads to immediate deactivation of your email
address from our database.
 Thanks for bearing with us.
 WEBMAIL TEAM
Warning Code: 002671
Information Technology Support Center (ITSC)
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