MIT e-mail phish attempt

Will Fiveash William.Fiveash at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 9 23:37:36 EST 2009


Just got the attached e-mail (which I bzip2ed) that contained:

 Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:23:12 -0500 (EST)
 From: MIT Support Team <supportteam at MIT.EDU>
 Subject:
 To: undisclosed-recipients: ;

Dear mit.edu User,

Your email account has been used to send numerous Spam mails recently from
a foreign IP. As a result, the mit.edu has received advice to suspend your
account. However, you might not be the one promoting this Spam, as your
email account might have been compromised. To protect your account from
sending spam mails, you are to confirm your true ownership of this account
by providing your original username (*******) and PASSWORD (*******) as a
reply to this message. On receipt of the requested information, the
"mit.edu" web email support shall block your account from Spam.

Failure to do this will violate the mit.edu email terms & conditions. This
will render your account inactive.

Thanks for using mit.edu

The MIT Webmail
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Note the Reply-to: is webaceess at ymail.com.  Just letting y'all know.
-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/kerberos/


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