Fraudulent Email Examples

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If you receive an email like the ones below, please do not respond, simply delete it.


The latest attempt. Both email examples below are phishing attempts.

From: <mygci@gci.net>
To: <:undisclosed-recipients>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:22 AM
Subject: Update Your GCI E-mail Account

Dear GCI Users.

The reason for this message is because of the Email Scams & Phishing going on the GCI Network. We have decided to contact all our clients and staff to provide their password so that we can confirm the active users and to de-activate the inactive user. We regret the inconveniences this might
have cost
you.

Please provide us with the below details.

  • Username:
  • Password:

With the above details we can verify active my.gci.net account.

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From: GCI SUPPORT TEAM <support@gci.net>
Date: February 17, 2008 7:40:30 AM AKST
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM THE GCI SUPPORT TEAM
Reply-To: gciactive@gmail.com

Dear Gci Subscriber,

To complete your gci 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 email address by logging into your gci account at http://webmail.gci.net

Thank you for using GCI.NET !
THE GCI.NET TEAM


If you receive an email like the ones above, please do not respond, simply delete it.



Created by webmaster
Last modified 2008-04-04 01:11 PM