Beware of "Last Warning - Reminder To All Employees Monthly Security and Application Patches" Phishing Scam

Updated: June 21, 2016 2016-06-21T23:29:39 -
Posted: June 21, 2016 2016-06-21T23:22:04
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The email message below with the subject: "RE: Last Warning: reminder to all employees," which claims that a monthly security and application patches will be pushed out to all staffs' workstations and laptops, is a phishing scam. The fake and phishing email message was NOT sent by the recipients' email account administrator, but by cybercriminals, who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them their email account user names and passwords. Therefore, recipients of the fraudulent email message should delete it and not follow the instructions in it.

The Phishing "Reminder To All Employees" Email Message

From: mcross@emhs.org
Subject: RE: Last Warning: reminder to all employees
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 18:40:52 +0000

Today Monday, June 20th, our monthly security and application patches will be pushed out to all staffs workstations and laptops. click on;http://dyluhlh47.ugo.moda/ to get started.

Recipients of the fake or phishing email message should change their email account password immediately, before it is hijacked and used fraudulently by cybercriminals.

Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers in email samples on this website may have been impersonated.

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