9-15-2008
The Office of Information Technology has become aware of a scam e-mail
message being sent to members of our campus community. It purports to be
from the school Webmaster and requests that you fill in your username and
password for database updating purposes. THIS IS A SCAM. We are not making
any database updates, as it suggests, and we will never ask for anyone to
put his or her password in an e-mail message. (Doing so would violate our
Appropriate Use Policy.) This e-mail is simply one of many examples of
"phishing" and if you should receive it, your best response would be to
delete it.
While the University e-mail system has filters in place to prevent most
virus and spam messages from getting through, some will inevitably reach
our users' inboxes. If you should receive any questionable e-mail, please
forward it to abuse@olemiss.edu so that we may deal with it as
necessary.
If you have further questions, please contact the IT Helpdesk at
662-915-5222.
Thank you for exercising judgment and responsibility when using your Ole
Miss e-mail and WebID accounts. |