Online users who have received "Mailbox Termination Confirmation" emails like the one below claiming their email accounts will be terminated are asked not to follow the instructions in them. This is because the emails are fakes and phishing scams being sent by cybercriminals to trick online users into clicking on the link within them. The link goes to fake or phishing websites that steal email account credentials (usernames and passwords).
The "Mailbox Termination Confirmation" Phishing Scam
From: "team@emailservers.com" <info@gcahawaii.org>
Date: January 10, 2018 at 1:12:58 AM CST
Subject: Mailbox Termination Confirmation
Reply-To: dericonfig@hotmail.com
Urgent Server Warning!
We received an instruction few hours ago to terminate your email account () from our server.
You need to confirm you made this request or we will continue with the request.
But if you think it is an error, take action immediately to stop this process, else your email will be closed shortly.
Click here to Stop () shutdown
If you are sure you gave this instruction for your account termination, please ignore this warning and your request will be processed shortly!
Thank You,
Email Security Team
Online users who have already been tricked by the phishing email scam are asked to change their email account password before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently by cybercriminals.