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Friday 16 January 2009

Spamcop.net phish

Here's a phish being sent to Spamcop webmail users - the approach has also been used for other webmail systems, so it isn't just Spamcop being targeted:

Subject: UPDATE YOUR SPAMCOP.NET ACCOUNT NOW
From: "spamcop.net webmail update" {info@yahoo.com}

Dear spamcop.net E-mail owners,

This message is from spamcop.net messaging center to all our email account
owners.
We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center due to an unusual
activities identified in our email system. We are de-activating all unused
spamcop.net accounts to create space for new accounts. To prevent your account
from being de-activated, you will have to verify your webmail account by
confirming your Webmail identity So that we will know that it's presently a
used account. We have been sending this notice to all our email account owners
and this is the last notice/verification exercise.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Last Name: ...........
Username: .......... .
Password : ...........

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND THESE DETAILS TO THE UPDATE TEAM BY SIMPLY
REPLYING TO THIS EMAIL WITH THE REQUESTED DETAILS.

Warning!!! Account owners who fails to update his or her account on receiving
this notice might loose his or her account.

Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ.spamcop.net
Thank you.
"SPAMCOP.NET IT TEAM"

Replying to the email gives a reply-to address of account_up_grade@hotmail.com and the originating IP is 216.241.36.13.

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