[IRCNews] Phishing email alert for @arrl.net address holders

Ken Bandy, KJ9B kj9b at arrl.net
Tue Dec 13 06:48:57 CST 2011


I received this email, and wanted to pass it along.  Please don't fall for it.  Completely bogus…

 

73,

Ken

KJ9B

 

From: Arrl.Net Technical Support Team. [mailto:s-gabay at inter.net.il] 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:46 PM
Subject: Arrl.Net Account Update Alerts!

 

******** ACCOUNT ALERT / UPDATE NOTIFICATION ********



Dear Valued Customer,
        This message is been sent to you as a notification from the Arrl.Net Technical Team as a precaution. We appreciate and thank you for maintaining your Account with us for the past years. But sorry to inform you, that we has experienced an unexpected "JavaScript Error" with our database administrator due to System Dead-Lock Error. As part of our efforts to provide secure means of services, we would like to reassure you of our commitment to excellent network service.

Please note that, unusual activity was detected as a result of ongoing blacklisted (IP) address and in most likely causes; your email Account will be shut down from our "Database". Hence, we ask that you update your Arrl.Net Account in order to avoid shutting down of your account and to eradicate spam email.

       On that case, we need to perform immediate maintenance for our customers’ accounts to be activated. And your account has to undergo these maintenance exercise for Re-activation Update, in which you are requested to send down your Account Info. for update activation. Therefore, we recommend that you provide your account information for the update activation, and failure to do so; your account will be restricted and deactivated from our Admin Database.

Below are the required details which you are strongly advised to provide to us (via email) for the Re-activation. This is because sometimes user data on our network system cannot be activated to their prior state, so you are advised to send it back to us as indicated in the below order:
=====================================
    * Full Names: (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
    * Your Sex: ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
    * Date of Birth: (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . .  . . .)
    * Login E-mail Address: (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
    * Enter Current Password: (. . . . . . . . . . . . .)
    * Re-enter your password: (. . . . . . . . . . . . .)
=====================================
    However, the requested data above are to be sent to us after clicking on your reply button (via email). And we apologize for the inconvenience, hope you do understand the reason why we are enforcing this policy to protect our customers’ account and to stop the proliferation of Junk/Spam messages with the help of our Anti-Spam Implemented Verification Sender (IVS).

NOTE: We are committed to constantly provide you with quality and secure service at all times, and if you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for being a loyal ARRL Mail User.

Sincerely,
Arrl.Net Technical Support Team.
Copyright © 2011 Arrl.Net, All rights reserved.


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