Phishing Example 48: System Notifications/Account Closure

Received July 2014

Message body:

   From: UMD Email - Support
   Date: Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:10 AM
   Subject: System Notifications/Account Closure
   To:
   Dear University of Minnesota Duluth Webmail User
   We hereby announce to you that your email account has exceeded its
   storage limit. You will be unable to send and receive mails and your
   email account will be deleted from our server. To avoid this problem,
   you are advised to verify your email account by clicking on the link
   below.
   CLICK HERE <http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/upgrade.php>
   Failure to comply will result to permanent termination of your email account
   Thank you.
   � 2014 Regents of the University of Minnesota Duluth . All rights reserved.
   The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer
   The Webmail Management Team

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Notes:

• very simple, unbranded form
• does hide the password when entered
• not from a ...umn.edu/ URL