I got a weird email from the "Calmail Team"?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I thought I'd ask you smart CCer's about it before I do anything, lol. I got mail sent to my Calmail account saying that they "detected strange activity" on my webmail account and that I'd have to follow a link where I verify that it's me (with my password and everything...) or else they'd have to shut my webmail account permanently. What the heck? has anyone gotten something similar?</p>

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<p><a href=“https://calmail.berkeley.edu/[/url]”>https://calmail.berkeley.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“5-25-2012: Phishing Alert
A message went thru the system reputing to be from <a href=“mailto:news@berkeley.edu”>news@berkeley.edu</a>. Please be aware that any news coming from CalMail will not require you to log into a web site. If you should receive any mail requesting your CalNet ID and passphrase, please send it to <a href=“mailto:consult@berkeley.edu”>consult@berkeley.edu</a>.”</p>

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<p>yeah, thanks for the reply! :slight_smile: I saw that right after I posted on here, but I figured that it wasn’t really news or, it didn’t come from that news @ berkeley . edu email. I’m not sure, though, but thanks for the reply</p>

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<p>Well, no matter the email of the sender, it’s still doing something that legitimate Berkeley email doesn’t.</p>