Phishing email sent to Gustavus accounts yesterday Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by Dan Oachs

Last night a large batch of phishing email was sent from “Gac Team” gacteam@bellsouth.net to many Gustavus email addresses. The message looked like this:

VERIFY YOUR GAC EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW

Dear Gac Email Account Owner,
This message is from Gac messaging center to all Gac email
account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account
center. We are deleting all unused Gac email account to create more
space for new accounts.

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

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 Gac.edul!
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ

Thanks,
Gac Team
GAC.EDU  BETA

This message was not sent by us. It was actually sent from a computer in Kenya in an attempt to get information. I would not recommend responding to this email in any way.

My spam filter gave it a score of 8.7 so it was sent to my spam folder and I never noticed it. If you are not using our spam filter, I highly recommend it. Also be very suspicious of any email asking for personal information. Especially passwords, bank numbers, etc. If you ever have any reason to question an emails authenticity, feel free to contact us or give the Helpline a call (x6111). We would be happy to take a look at the message. Some times an email will look very authentic and it can be difficult to tell the difference.