Although these e-mails are sent under the address of ‘admin@snu.ac.kr’ and claim to be sent by the ‘SNU Webmail Team’, they have no relation to our institution. These “phishing” emails are asking for sensitive personal information such as user ID, passwords, and date of birth. An example of the relevant “phishing” e-mail is attached below, so please do not reply to these e-mails and delete them straight away in case you receive them. Thank you for your cooperation.
* Please note:
The University Computer Center does not ask for private information by e-mails. When you receive an e-mail of such kind, please inform us by e-mail (sisadmin@snu.ac.kr) or phone (880-5377, 5516).
SNU Computer Center
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Reference) Example of the relevant “Phishing” E-Mail
Attempting to Capture Your Personal Information
--- Original Message --- Dear Webmail User; We are sending you this email to verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. Due to the congestion in mail server, Webmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts.
To confirm your active account, you are require to send us your E-mail account details listed below, these information would be needed to verify your account and to avoid being closed;
* E-mail: Waiting to receive the details of your two emails
Warning!!! Account owner that refuse to send this information after one weeks of receiving this warning will lose his/her snu.ac.kr account permanently.
Regards,
From :"Snu.ac.kr Webmail Team"
To :
Date : 2009/01/03 토요일 오전 2:59:47
Subject : Verify Your E-mail Account
This mail is to inform all our {snu.ac.kr} webmail users that we will be upgrading our site to help block spam. We are also having congestion due to the anonymous registration of accounts so we are shutting down some accounts and your account is among those to be deleted.
* UserID:
* Re-type Password:
* Password:
* Date of Birth:
snu.ac.kr Webmail Team.