New Email Phishing Attack

Have you received an email over the last few days that looked like?

From: alerts@yourdoamin.com [mailto:alerts@yourdomain.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:44 AM
To:
Your User Name
Subject: For the owner of the youremailaddress e-mail account

 

Dear user of the yourdomainname mailing service!

We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (youremailaddress) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://yourdomainname.polikkp.co.uk/owa/service_directory/settings.php?email=youremailaddress&from=yourdomainname&fromname=yourusername

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Best regards, yourdomainname Technical Support.

Do not click the link. This is an attempt to get valid usernames from valid domains. It looks like something that your domain administrator might send out and this is why it might be so effective but I am the domain admin of several of the domains that I have seen this sent to and I know I did not send this out. Be aware what you click on as this is something from the UK not something from your admin.

 

Safe and Happy Surfing