Urgent E-mail from UCLA

<p>Anybody else get this?:
"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>It seems kind of fishy...specially since it asks for your password.</p>

<p>Hm, yeah. Asking for everyone’s (staff, too?) information doesn’t sound right. I didn’t get anything like this.</p>

<p>You can never be too sure though. Maybe it’s legitimate…</p>

<p>Wow. They would never ask for your password, they can tell if you use your email account by checking the last time you logged in.
That definitely looks like a phishing email. I would forward it to the BOL Help Desk (<a href=“mailto:consult@ucla.edu”>consult@ucla.edu</a>), or you can call them at (310) 267-4357 option 1.</p>

<p>Oh, and Bios TUP Data base is total ********. No one in tech uses terms like that, they just strung a couple of words together in an attempt to confuse students.</p>

<p>Yeah, it sounded like a scam even before I opened it. The subject had a bunch of exclamation points in it. Thanks for the info!</p>

<p>Seems like a scam.</p>

<p>Now that I’ve reread it I’m sure of it. It has grammatical mistakes. UCLA would never send that.</p>

<p>“to enable us know if you are still making use of your email box” </p>

<p>“we will be deleting all email account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user.”</p>

<p>and this was the subject “Urgent on your Email!!!”</p>

<p>lol. Don’t you have to be smart to be a scam artist?</p>

<p>This is kinda scary though.</p>

<p>What if someone were to answer that email without reading it carefully? What if a sleep-deprived student were to give a scammer their account information?</p>

<p>ciaokarol - be sure to forward this to ucla</p>

<p>Yeah, if they mass emailed this I’m sure someone is bound to fall for it. :(</p>

<p>yeah I know. I already forwarded it to the address thinkgolden posted and when I am sure that they received it I am deleting that e-mail.</p>