10-8-2009

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 "Webmail@Ole Miss [Helpdesk@olemiss.edu]" and requests you reply immediately and fill in your WebID, password, date of Birth, , and student employee number to prevent your account from being suspended.

THIS IS A SCAM. 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.

8-20-2009

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 "Account Maintenance" and requests you reply immediately and fill in your username and password to prevent your account from being blocked. THIS IS A SCAM. 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.

7-16-2009

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 necessary for a system upgrade/maintenance 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.