Phishing Attack

We are receiving some notices from users who are receiving an email asking for account information.  Please be advised that these are not from OWU and should be marked as SPAM.  Below is an example of the message.  Remember, you should never provide your password or any other sensitive information via email.


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Subject: Ohio Wesleyan University,Email Account Upgrade
To: 

Ohio Wesleyan University,Email Account Upgrade

ATTENTION WEBMAIL USER,

We regret to announce to you that we will be making some vital maintainance on our website.

During this process you might have login problems in signing into your Online account. but to prevent this, you have to confirm your account immediately after you receive this notification.

To confirm and to keep your account active during and after this process, please reply to this message with the below account informations.

Failure to do this might cause a permanent deactivation of your user account from our database to enable us create more spaces for new users.

YOUR ACCOUNT CONFIRMATION

Name:
E-mail ID:
E-mail Password:
Departments:

Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed your account details to the email address below.

The above informations should be sent your help officer with the below email address for prompt response

Thanks for bearing with us.
Ohio Wesleyan University,Service Help Desk
Warning Code: 002671