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Monday, June 12, 2017

Example 201: Your email (name)@umn.edu, has low storage.

Scam email sent to steal user passwords with "low storage" warning.

Message text:

To (name)@umn.edu 
You are running out of email storage space and this could prevent you from
receiving other important mails!
Please Click Here to verify your email to lift your email storage limit.
Yours Sincerely,
Account Team
Web form:


Things to Note:

  • Email to "name@umn.edu" embeds email address in form
  • Nothing related to UMN.EDU in email, or form

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