<p>"University of California
1111 Franklin St.,
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
310-825-4322 UCLA</a> Gateway</p>
<p>This email is to inform all our staffs and students of University of California UCLA</a> Gateway that we are resetting our Bios TUP Data Base in a couple of days from now. You are required to send us your Email account details to enable us know if you are still making use of your email box and to avoid losing all your Data, Email and your Password.</p>
<p>Further be informed that we will be deleting all email account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. So you are to send us your email account details which are as follows:</p>
<p>User name:</p>
<p>Password:</p>
<p>Department:</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Warning Code: XiWWMNP
Ucla Message Center UCLA</a> Gateway "</p>
<p>To me, this seems like a scam or some hackers just trying to get my web info. If everyone else got this email too though, than it's probably legit. (This is my UCLA email BTW)</p>
<p>If UCLA is legitimately asking you to send them your username and password via email, they are out of their minds. Their web services are a little janky, but not THAT janky. It’s definitely a phish. Don’t gauge its legitimacy by the number of people who receive it, either.</p>
<p>lol, even if it was UCLA, I wouldn’t give it to them. Like, why do they need it for? They could just reset everyone’s password. (Though, I doubt UCLA would make that many grammar mistakes.)</p>
<p>Pretty obviously fake. What was the address that sent it to you? I got something earlier this year phishing from a <a href=“mailto:xxx@asu.edu”>xxx@asu.edu</a> address.</p>
<p>^It doesn’t matter. The way e-mail works, the sender can identify his name and e-mail as anything. <a href=“mailto:xxx@asu.edu”>xxx@asu.edu</a> may not even be a real e-mail or it could be a real e-mail but the account is neither owned nor controlled by the sender of the e-mail.</p>
<p>so why not be <a href=“mailto:admin@ucla.edu”>admin@ucla.edu</a> or something a little less transparent? I don’t get the impression that these people are particularly smart.</p>
Because the person who sent this email is a really amateur phisher. -.-</p>
<p>I just realized that the means he wants the victim to send the information to him is through a reply e-mail; so you’re right, he needs a legit e-mail to receive the victim’s account details.</p>
<p>Professional phishers usually include a link in the message that will direct you to a website with a form to fill out and submit your information. Its a much more professional, streamlined process for gathering data. Also, their e-mails mostly aren’t real so they couldn’t accept reply e-mails if they wanted to.</p>
<p>In order to create a webpage with such a form, you would need a minimal amount of web programming knowledge.</p>
<p>I also got this and didnt reply as I also thought that it may not be from UCLA. Yeah that’s <a href=“mailto:webmasters@ucla.edu”>webmasters@ucla.edu</a>- but that username may not be actually of ucla authorities. What u guys r doing?</p>
<p>This e-mail is also not personal, while all other e-mails received till date from UCLA were personal.</p>
<p>Infact one more e-mail which was not personal was from someone named Mr. Fred who was asking for help to transfer some money to USA and promised some share.</p>
<p>Yeah, carreshwell, I got that same email from “Mr. Fred.” I haven’t used my UCLA email for anything so I’m a little concerned as to why I’m already getting spam email.</p>
<p>When we created our UCLA email id, they said that this username and id is for lifetime. So, I dont think that these shall be deleted. Also, the email says that the email was from <a href=“mailto:webmasters@ucla.edu”>webmasters@ucla.edu</a> but it should be replied to <a href="mailto:verifies@teachers.org">verifies@teachers.org</a> which is completely a different data base. This is definitely scam. Also UCLA will never ask for password because they know everyone’s.</p>
<p>^^^ ditto. always. no organization ever emails to ask for your password. </p>
<p>damn scammers… btw, it seems like my ucla address if scammed more than my other email address. *** is that? Maybe it doesn’t have good junkmail filters or something? I have no idea how my email got out there too. Thanks UCLA.</p>
I’m somewhat confident our UCLA emails won’t last long. The university is looking to export its email service to a major email provider in an attempt to cut costs. At best we’ll get to keep our email ID but I’d still expect our inboxes to be erased.</p>
<p>Anyways, the UCLA email service has always been god awful and I applaud the change (if and when it happens). On top of my head here are the things wrong with UCLA email:
Its sloooooooooowwww…
The storage space is tiny. Do we even have 1 GB?
It takes forever for our accounts to process emails.
Attachment sizes often aren’t enough for even 1 picture.
UCLA releases out e-mails to every spammer on earth imaginable. I’ve changed my main account to my Hotmail and my UCLA spam immediately carried over. -.-</p>
<p>I got this too, but now, exactly 2 days after I received that email (and did nothing about it) my ucla email account seems to be erased or locked… I’m calling BOL in the morning…</p>
<p>Lol at people questioning if this is legitimate. So obviously fake it’s ridiculous. </p>
<p>1) They would never ask for user names and passwords
2) The reason they ask for user names and passwords is ludicrous (to check if your accounts are active? There are other ways the systems admins could check this)
3) Multiple spelling errors</p>
<p>You should be pretty embarrassed about having to ask this question.</p>
<p>And also lol at the new poster “jrpage” who is a part of this blatantly obvious scam. Or I guess just had a weird coincidence. Anyone who suggests that this E-mail is legitimate, however, deserves to be laughed at.</p>
<p>Nigerian scams were so much more creative.</p>
<p>p.s- I LOVE SCAMS. They’re my favorite thing in the world to read about. However, ones like this are just plain boring.</p>