email fraud

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…

Scammers seem to be aiming at UCLA these days.  As an earlier post noted, you may receive messages such as the one below saying that through UCLA someone is trying to reach you.  Just click on a link to find out. Don’t click. Delete. Here is the latest version as received by yours truly: Bruin OnLine Info Center Inbox Hello You have a private message from your old friend who wished to get in-touch with you, use the Private link below to login and view your message if possibly get in contact with your old friend again. {link} Sign, Computer…

Welcome Ucla user,You have received a private message from your old friend who wished to get back in-touch with you. Please use the UCLA Private link below to login and view your message and possibly get in contact with your old friend.[Link shown]Sign,Information CentreUCLA 405 HILGARD AVENUE LOSANGELES,CA 90095 310.825.4321University of California © 2012 UC Regents===Note the British spelling of Centre.  Note that Signed is spelled Sign.Don’t click on it.  Delete it.  Then just listen:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA3P0oVDB0Y&w=320&h=195]

Did you get a message like the one below in your email recently? Fraud.  Don’t click on it.  Delete it. Bruin OnLine is pleased to announce that we have increased size limits with several Bruin OnLine services. We have again increased your email quota to a final size of 1GB. Along with your email quota, message size limits have been increased to 35MB, with a per attachment size limit of 25MB. And finally, we also increased the file size limits of your online file storage. The original file size limit was doubled to now support 10MB files. Kindly log on ucla.edu/increase to…

You may be getting emails purportedly from UCLA computer authorities telling you that your email account is about to be voided unless you click and give personal info. This is phishing aimed at identity theft. Don’t respond; just delete the messages. The latest seem to come from “vc@ucla.edu”. No such address exists. But because the messages seem to come from a UCLA email address, they may get past whatever spam filters you have.