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Employee Alert

Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Warning about email seeking user ID and password

According to HFM BOCES Computer Services Coordinator David Patterson, several HFM BOCES employees have reported receiving an e-mail that requests the recipient to reply with their e-mail account ID and password.

DO NOT RESPOND TO SUCH AN E-MAIL! JUST DELETE IT. IT IS A phishing ATTEMPT TO STEAL YOUR E-MAIL ACCOUNT USERNAME AND PASSWORD. (more)

What is phishing?
(fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft.

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