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Posted: Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Here is a copy of e-mail sent to the university community in response to
another wave of "phishing" e-mails, ostensibly from the Office
of Information Technology (OIT).
Never give your university password to anyone, especially in response to
an unsolicited e-mail message. A legitimate University of Maryland
message will never make such a request.
University e-mail users (along with users at many other universities)
continue to receive fraudulent messages. These messages, impersonating
university officials or referencing university services, are being sent
in an attempt to obtain passwords and other personal information. A
legitimate university message would have no reason to make such a request.
- Do not respond to these messages as this action confirms that the
message was sent to a valid address. Delete the message.
- Never provide personal information over the Internet (or telephone)
unless you initiated the conversation and there is a legitimate reason
to provide such information.
- If you responded to one of these messages with your password, change
your password IMMEDIATELY at the password.umd.edu Web site. In addition,
please contact the OIT Help Desk at one of the numbers below.
Here is a link to another OIT Help Desk web page on this issue,
Beware Of Password Phishing E-mail,
posted in March 2008. It contains another statement by the OIT Security
Office, as well as some examples of "phishing" e-mails, and links
to web sites which discuss the matter.
If you have any questions about this or other IT issues, please contact
the OIT Help Desk.
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