Scammers have trawled the university web pages and perhaps even obtained e-mail addresses via compromised computers within the university, and are using these stolen addresses to create a phishing scam that can be dangerous, if you respond, especially if you have an Apple device and use iCloud etc.

The Subject will be “Your Apple Profile Suspension” (Notice the use of capitals for each word, already a sign that something is not right…)

Below is an example of such a mail. Do not respond to this mail, click on any of the links and fill in any details, on any page you might be directed to. This is a scam and you should firstly add the sender to your Blacklist, blacklist the subject line and consign the mail to your junkmail folder.

Here is the mail with the dangerous stuff filtered out, just in case you like clicking on links!…

From: Apple Accounts [mailto:hackedaddress@sun.ac.za]
Sent: Friday, 31 October 2014 17:36
To: Stolen US Adress, AN <stolenaddress@sun.ac.za>
Subject: Your Apple Profile Suspension

[INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY DAVID WILES]

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