University of the Philippines Webmail Scam

If you have a University of the Philippines (UP) Webmail account, you may have gotten this email:

Dear up.edu.ph Subscriber,

To complete your up.edu.ph 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 up.edu.ph email address by logging into your
http://mail.up.edu.ph/

Thank you for using up.edu.ph
The University of Philippines Internet Service Team
University of Philippines, all rights reserved.

I have to admit, my initial reaction was to open the reply button. But I noticed that the reply to address was a Yahoo! account. I checked the UP Webmail site and there was a notice of a scam email or a social engineering hacking attempt.

UP has been in the news lately because it turns 100 years old this year. Perhaps some hacker might want to exploit this. In any case,  UP students, faculty and alumni, do not reply to the above email if you got it.

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    Speaking of UP e-mail, namimigay pa rin ako ng UPAlumni.net accounts sa http://www.upalumni.net. :)

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    I received one. I, too, got suspicious since it has never happened before – a message of that sort being sent to my UP Mail account.

    Anyway, I’m inviting UP students, faculty, and alumni to join a UP online community.

    The site is: iskoneksyon.com

    Hope you join, your site is quite informative. You could share your knowledge with the UP community through iskoneksyon.com, and perhaps engage with others who might be into IT also. I, too, am into IT and web development for fun and learning.

    Anyway, enough said.

    Thanks!

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  • Eugene Spammer

    Oh that’s an old scam, I am really shocked that some people felt into this trap. IT Support London