BEWARE: New Phishing attack on Swbell.net users [ Edited ]

[to8034]

Here's a new phishing attack against swbell.net email clients.  The following email was received:

Attention: Swbell.net Subscriber
 
This mail is to inform all our valued customers that we are currently maintaining and upgrading our database in a couple of days from now. As we are very concerned with stopping the proliferation of spam. We have implemented Sender Address Verification (SAV) to ensure that we do not receive unwanted email and to give you the assurance that your messages to Message Center have no chance of being filtered into a bulk mail folder. To help us re-set your password on our database prior to maintain of our database, you must reply to this e-mail and enter your Current User name (                    ) and Password (                  ). Our message center will confirm your identity including the secret question and answer immediately and reply you with a new Default Password which you must reset again.
 
Failure to do this will result to email deactivation within 48hours.
 
NOTE: If you have done this before, you may ignore this mail.
 

Thank you for your understanding.

© 2012 Swbell.net Administration

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[ATTAlexCM]

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to8034 wrote:

Here's a new phishing attack against swbell.net email clients.  The following email was received:

Attention: Swbell.net Subscriber
 
This mail is to inform all our valued customers that we are currently maintaining and upgrading our database in a couple of days from now. As we are very concerned with stopping the proliferation of spam. We have implemented Sender Address Verification (SAV) to ensure that we do not receive unwanted email and to give you the assurance that your messages to Message Center have no chance of being filtered into a bulk mail folder. To help us re-set your password on our database prior to maintain of our database, you must reply to this e-mail and enter your Current User name (                    ) and Password (                  ). Our message center will confirm your identity including the secret question and answer immediately and reply you with a new Default Password which you must reset again.
 
Failure to do this will result to email deactivation within 48hours.
 
NOTE: If you have done this before, you may ignore this mail.
 

Thank you for your understanding.

© 2012 Swbell.net Administration

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Thank you for sharing to8034.  Please see the following post on how to protect against and report Phishing attempts here.

Regards,

Alex