"Your Email Account has Exceeded it's Mail Quota on the Database Server" Phishing Scam

Your Email Account has Exceeded its Mail Quota on the Database Server Phishing Scam

The email messages below, which claim that the recipients have have exceeded their email account quota on the database server, is a phishing scam. The email messages were not sent from the recipients' email providers. They were instead, sent by cyber-criminals to steal recipients' email address passwords, by tricking them into clicking on the link within it. The link will take the recipients who have clicked on it, to a fake or bogus website looking like your email address provider’s sign in or login page. Once the recipients enter their email account user name and password on the bogus website, it will be sent to the cyber-criminals, who use the information to hijack their victims' email accounts.

The Phishing or Fake Email Messages

Hello, worried about this email.

This is a courtesy notice from admin team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server. Your email account will be blocked from sending and recovering emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hrs. please click on your email below and click on your account.

From Windows live Team.

My email account was displayed underneath.

Please return an answer asap.

Christina.

This is a courtesy notice from Admin Team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

Please click on your email below to your email restore access

System Administrator
Yahoo Mail Team

If you have received email messages about your email account, instead of clicking on the link in it, please sign into your account by going directly to your email address provider website.

Now, if you were tricked into clicking on the link in the malicious email message and entered your email address username and password on the fake or phishing website that the link took you to, please change your email address password immediately.

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  • June 16, 2017 at 10:02 AM by info

    Here is another scam:

    - Forwarded Message -

    "From: info <hgrissel@uiowa.edu>

    Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017, 11:15:11 AM GMT 3

    Subject: Validate

    Dear da_vinci_i@yahoo.com,

    This is a courtesy notice from Admin Team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

    Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

    Please click on your email below and click Unblock to verify your account.

    %EMAIL%

    Thanks,

    Live Team"

  • September 28, 2016 at 8:46 PM by info

    Here is another email scam:

    "Dear,

    This is a courtesy notice from Admin Team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

    Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

    Please click on your email below and click Unblock to verify your account.

    Thanks,

    Yahoo Team!"

  • September 20, 2016 at 2:53 PM by an anonymous user from: Mandaluyong, National Capital Region, Philippines

    This email came to me... I was tricked! I immediately changed my password:

    Dear,

    This is a courtesy notice from admin team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

    Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

    Please click on your email below and click unblock to verify your account.

    Thanks,

    !Y team!

  • June 2, 2016 at 3:25 PM by info

    Here is another phishing scam:

    - start of scam -

    From: Yahoo! ID <stelter@ bell.net> schrieb am 18:04 Donnerstag, 2.Juni 2016:

    Subject: WG: Account Issues‏

    Dear

    This is a courtesy notice from Admin Team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

    Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

    Please click on Restore Access below to verify your account.

    Restore Access

    System Admin

    Yahoo Mail Team

    - end of scam -

  • April 22, 2016 at 7:22 AM by an anonymous user from: Hilton, New York, United States

    I followed the instructions and hit my email address. Now what do I do.

    • April 22, 2016 at 9:16 AM by info

      Change your email account password and just be careful next time.

      • June 16, 2017 at 3:07 AM by an anonymous user from: Lagos, Nigeria

        Here is another scam:

        "This is a courtesy notice from Admin Team, and it is to inform you that your email account has exceeded it's mail quota on the database server.

        Your email account will be blocked from sending and receiving emails if your email account is not verified within 48 hours.

        Please click on your email below and click Unblock to verify your account.

        %EMAIL%

        Thanks,

        Live Team"

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