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Phishing from Way Down Under

Byuclafaculty

The email below received by yours truly definitely seems phishy:

This email is being sent to you because of violation security breach that was detected by our servers. Our server detected that one of the messages you received from a contact has already infected your mail with a dangerous virus.


You can no longer be allowed to send messages or files to other users to prevent the spread of virus to other @UCLA.EDU users.

Please follow the link below to perform maintenance work needed to improve the protection of the email for us to verify and have your account cleared against this virus.

Failure to comply will lead to the termination of your Account in the next 48 hours.

http://www.123contactform.com/form-342492/UCLA 

Hoping to serve you better.

Sincerely,
University of Tasmania Central Webmail Support service 
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This is an Administrative Message from noreply@ucla.edu.au Mail server, It is not spam. From time to time, noreply@ucla.edu.au server will send you such messages in order to communicate important information about your subscription.
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And for our friends in Tasmania…
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