Have you been using your email a lot recently? Should you re-validate it so you can keep receiving email messages? The answer should be NO!
This message has been be seen in several Google Apps @UDel.edu mailboxes:
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It is clearly a phishing scam for several reasons:
- The subject is ambiguous.
- The message does not refer to you by name.
- The sender is not using a Google Apps @UDel.edu email address.
- There are several grammar errors such as incorrect capitalization and missing periods.
- The message is signed by “ITS help desk” instead of “IT Support Center”.
- The “ADMIN TEAM” link is very suspicious.
It is easy to check how full your Google Apps @UDel.edu inbox is, and it doesn’t require you to click on suspicious links. If you scroll to the bottom of your inbox, you will see something similar to this:
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As you can see, you have 15GBs of space instead of the 500MBs that the phishing scam suggests. You are also probably not even close to having a full inbox. Never believe email messages that suggest your inbox is almost full.
