UCLA Attacks UCSC!
That sounds exclamatory. And its probably untrue. But the rash of mail scamming surrounding the UCSC Cruzmail system has had me wondering for a few weeks now, especially since these problems seemed non-existant last year. Today, my roommate received seemingly legit mail from "help@ucsc.edu" asking for his username and passoword to help with a "Cruzmail upgrade". If that's not fishy, I don't know what is, so I had him forward the message to me and did a little digging. Here's what I found:
What is this? A malicious attack against UCSC by UCLA? Say it aint so! Now, I'm sure its not actually the Bruins attacking the slugs (Because they'd lose), but it is interesting that somebody can use UCLA's mail system to spoof UCSC's. Full text of message is below. Thanks to Apple Mail.
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:27:06 -0700
> From: help@ucsc.edu
> To:
> Subject: Account Upgrade/Maintenance All MyUCSC Accounts
>
>
>
> ITS Support Help Desk
>
> Attn. MyUCSC Users,
>
> Account Upgrade/Maintenance All MyUCSC Accounts
>
> We regret to announce to you that we will be making some vital
> maintenance on our MyUCSC account. During this process you
> might have login problems in signing into your MyUCSC account, but to prevent
> this you have to confirm your account immediately after you receive this
> notification.
>
> To confirm and to keep your MyUCSC account active during
> and after this process, please reply to this message with the below
> account information's. Failure to do this might cause a permanent
> deactivation of your MyUCSC account from our database to enable
> us create more spaces for up coming students.
>
> To confirm your account, send your MyUCSC login details, stating:
>
> User ID:
> Password:
>
> Your MyUCSC account shall remain active after we have successfully
> confirmed and upgraded your account.
>
> Thank you for your swift response to this notification we apologize for any
> inconvenience.
>
> ITS Support Help Desk
>
> © 2009 ITS Service The Regents of the University of California. All
> rights reserved.
April 18th, 2009 - 01:16
woot! for being a target of an email scam and not a victim.