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I just got this message in my inbox from Haberman, Michael C. MCHABERMAN@stthomas.edu

TOP URGENT!!! Please Confirm Your Account Immediately…

Dear Edu Email Account Owner,

This message is from Edu messaging center to all Edu email account owners.
We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are
deleting all Edu email account to create more space for new accounts.

To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so
that we will know that it’s a present used account.

We have been sending this notice to all our Edu email account owners and
this is the last notice/verification exercise.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW

Email Username: ……………
EMAIL Password: …………….
Date of Birth: ……………..
Country or Territory: ……….

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within
Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account
permanently.

Warning Code: VX2G99AAJ

THANKS,
WEBMASTER SUPPORT TEAM.
Reply to: support_team@alumni.com <mailto:support_team@alumni.com>

Wow, talk about a failure waiting to happen. Are people really stupid enough to fall for transparent scams, such as this?

Not only did the email come from a school that I’ve never gone to, but the support email is from alumni.com. How would any of those people have control over my college email address?

Apparently this scam has been done before:

http://www.aub.edu.lb/bulletin/83461.html

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