Sunday 19 April 2009

Email Phishing

This one is spam. Note they put the sense of urgency by asking you to reply within 72 hours. Any web hosting company would never ask for your password.


Dear EIRCOM.NET web-mail User,

Due to spam complaints of email users in our web-mail system, our investigation shows that your email address is compromised and is used to send out spam message
in our web-mail system. As a result, your User name will be disabled if you do
not send us the required information within 72hrs.

Information Required:
Your Full Names:
Email address:
Password:
Retype Password:

Thank you for using the internet service
Eircom.net Webmail Technical Informations Department

NB: We request your username and password for Identification purpose only.

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