The phishing scammers are at it again. The mail below is “spoofing” a university account, or they are using an e-mail account that they have hijacked to send out mail to fool Stellenbosch users into divulging their personal e-mail addresses, account names and passwords. Do no respond to it or go to the site in the mail.
Here is the example of the mail that several SU users have already received:
From: SU staff member <sunstaffmemberaddress@sun.ac.za>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:05 AM
To: ‘dummyaddress@mail.com’
Subject: Dear Stellenbosch account users.
Dear Stellenbosch account users.
You have exceeded your sun.ac.za e-mail account limit quota of 575MB and you are requested to expand it within 48 hours or else your sun.ac.za e-mail account will be disable from our database. Simply CLICK with the complete information requested to expand your sun.ac.za e-mail account quota to 1000MB.
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