ATTENTION: UChicago Phishing Scam Currently Circulating.
There is a phishing scam currently circulating with the subject: (CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS). It asks you to reply and provide your university account password and claims to be from "UNIVERSITY WEBMAIL SUPPORT" and the UCHICAGO.EDU TEAM. This is a scam. Do not respond. You do not need to forward the email to us. You should delete the email.
Please reference NSIT Safe Computing for information on phishing scams and safe computing practices.
Here is the text of the email:
Dear Uchicago Webmail Subscriber,
To complete your Uchicago Webmail account, you must reply to this email
immediately and enter your password here (*********)
Failure to do this will immediately render your email address
deactivated from our database.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your
Uchicago Webmail account at http://webmail.uchicago.edu
Thank you for using UCHICAGO.EDU !
THE UCHICAGO.EDU TEAM
Last updated: 3/17/08