Phishing from Way Down Under

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…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm6uumm8Kzw&w=320&h=195]

Scam-A-Lot (More Phony Emails to Delete)

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 Support

Bruin OnLine Webmail

© Bruin OnLine Webmail, All rights reserved

[Note the grammar: “…if possibly get in contact…”]

It’s tough to get money by illicit means:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHOgkDbVqc&w=320&h=195]

Another Email Phishing Scam Purportedly from UCLA

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 Centre
UCLA 405 HILGARD AVENUE LOS
ANGELES,CA 90095 310.825.4321
University of California © 2012 UC Regents

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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]

Don’t Do It!

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 update your account
Thank you.
Eugene Acosta

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Note that the message does not actually come from a UCLA account (although it may appear to) nor does the link it invites you to click on take you to a UCLA address.

Warning on Phishing

You may have received emails purporting to be from UCLA such as the one below. Don’t respond. Don’t click. Just delete the message.

Someone is trying to steal your ID information (phishing).

Dear User,

We have observed suspicious activities from your Internet account. Kindly click on ucla.edu or copy and paste this link http://(address removed) on your browser to verify your account now in orders to avoid disconnection of service.

Regards,

Web Admin.

Phishing Aimed at UCLA Folks

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.