Spam Regarding an E-mail Upgrade

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Dear All,

Please be aware that we have had reports of e-mails being received by our users asking them to click a link to upgrade their e-mail account. Please do NOT respond to this e-mail or click the link.
The e-mail is spam and did not originate from the Trent University IT Department.
Delete this e-mail immediately. 

The timing of this spam is unfortunate as it coincides with our continued migration to Office 365. 

A sample of the spam e-mail is shown below. the link has been replaced with “XXXXXXX” in this sample.

******************SAMPLE OF SPAM E-MAIL*******************

This is your IT Service Desk sending you this email for your account upgrade, we are conducting an upgrade in all email account, all users are to verify his/her account for upgrade, 
CLICK THIS LINK:http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.XXXXXX.XXX/ to go to upgrade your account.

Tariq Al-idrissi
Associate Vice President, IT
Trent University
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