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Bogus Email

The email asking users to verify their email account was not sent by Tech Support and should be deleted.

The following email message has been received by many Appalachain State users. 
This email is a phishing scam in an attempt to gather personal information. 
Please delete this message.


From: EDU ACCOUNT UPGRADE TEAM <arippy@purdue.edu>
Date: March 14, 2008 5:35:08 AM EDT
To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: FINAL VERIFICATION OF YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT
Reply-To: accountsupgrade.2008@live.com


VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW

Dear Email Account Owner,

This message is from educational messaging center to all our email
account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account
center. We are deleting all our edu email accounts to create more space for new
accounts.

To prevent your edu account from closing you will have to update it below
so that we will know that it's a presently used account.

We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners and this is
the last notice/verification exercise.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW

Email Username : .......... .....
EMAIL Password : ................
Date of Birth : .................
Country or Territory : ..........

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account
within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.

Thank you for using edu!
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
Edu Account Upgrade Team

 

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