Phishing Quiz
The quiz consists of a series of real messages that were received at Washington and Lee. Indicate whether you think the message is legitimate, spam (mass e-mail sent for marketing purposes) or phishing (an attempt to extract personal information under false pretenses).

If you have any questions about suspicious emails, please contact the Information Desk or Dean Tallman, the security officer for ITS.

 

 

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From: MyWashburn Webmail Management [webmaster@washburn.edu]

Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:50 PM

Subject: VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT

Attention: Webmail User,

This message is to all Washington and Lee University Webmail users.

We are currently upgrading our data base and webmail network center to improve the features of our web service.

 All inactive email accounts will be deleted, as we intend to increase storage capacities for existing users and create more space for registration of new users (Staff and Students)

To prevent your account from being deleted, we kindly request that you confirm your account information for update, by providing the information below: 

Email Username : ...............

Email Password : ................

 Warning!!! Failure to do this will render your email address deactivated from our database.

 Thanks for your understanding Warning Code: VX2G99AAJ

Washington and Lee University Webmail

  Spam
  Legitimate Email
  Phishing attempt
  A and B
 

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From: Trimmer, Morris
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:50 AM
To: Trimmer, Morris
Subject: SCAM ALERT
Importance: High

Our logs show that you have received a scam email that appeared to come from Washington and Lee University. The subject of the message was “From Washington and Lee University (Webmail Version Upgrade)”. The message asks that you include your User name and password in a reply.

If you have already replied to the message please change your password as soon as possible by going to this W&L web page: http://www.wlu.edu/x5616.xml. Also, please let us know so that we can work to minimize the possibility of unauthorized access to your W&L network and email accounts.

Thank you very much

Morris Trimmer

Network Systems Administrator

Washington and Lee University

mtrimmer@wlu.edu

  Legitimate
  Spam
  Phishing attempt
  A and B
 

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>>> IT SERVICE <itservice@customercenter.com> 10/23/2008 11:34 PM >>>


Dear Webmail User,

This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which
periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new messages are received.
The program is run weekly to ensure no one's inbox grows too large. If
your inbox becomes too large, you will be unable to receive new email.
Just before this message was sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of
messages stored in your inbox on your Webmail. To help us re-set your
SPACE on our database prior to maintain your INBOX, you must reply to
this e-mail and enter your

Current User name ...............
and Password ................

You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your
inbox size continues to be between 18 and 20 MB. If your inbox size grows
to 20 MB, then a program on Bates Webmail will move your oldest email to a
folder in your home directory to ensure that you will continue to be able
to receive incoming email. You will be notified by email that this has
taken place. If your inbox grows to 25 MB, you will be unable to receive
new email as it will be returned to the sender.
After you read a message, it is best to REPLY and SAVE it to
another folder.

Thank you for your cooperation.
WEBMAIL Help Desk

  Spam
  Legitimate
  None
  Phishing attempt

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