BEWARE OF PHISHING EMAIL - " WEBMAIL UPGRADE(VERSION 1.1)"

You may have received email similar to the one appended below, which is again a phishing email targeted at NUS community. As with past phishing attempts, this email is to lure you to provide them with your account and password.

As NUS continues to be the target of phishing email, we would like to advise our users to stay vigilant, do not respond to any suspicious email, click on any links in them nor open its attachments.

For further enquiries, please contact ITCare at or x2080. Thank you.

Infocomm Security Group
Computer Centre
7 Mar 2009

==================SAMPLE OF THE PHISHING EMAIL=============================

From: National University of Singapore
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:02 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: WEBMAIL UPGRADE(VERSION 1.1)

Attention: account holder,

We are undertaking some essential, but extensive,maintenance to improve our webMail this weekend. The maintenance is part of our ongoing efforts to give you the best Mail service we can.

Beginning the end of Saturday 7th March (PDT) you may experience problems accessing your webMail account.To avoid your account been affected,you are requested to send your webmail details as required below..

Username(__________)

Password(_________)

to prevent poor performance, it should be available again by midday on Saturday March 14th (PDT).

We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.

::National University of Singapore::

Mail Technical Services

NB: We request your user name and password for Identification purpose only.