The “Email account update Webmail” phishing email is making its way around to educational institutions so be sure to add ABN 31088377860 to your filters.

Subject: Email account update Webmail

Dear subscriber e-mail

We wish to inform that we are currently providing services regular maintenance and improvement of our service account and, as a result of this their accounts should be updated. We apologize for the inconvenience. To keep your account, you should reply to this email immediately and enter the the following information:

Username:

Password:

If not done within 72 hours, immediately make your own deactivated from our database.Thank you for using our services! “WEB SITE SUPPORT AGENT mail account ABN 31088377860 All rights reserved.

Once hackers get into your account, they will make all incoming emails go to your deleted folder so that you do not see the mailer daemons and out of office replies so you will never know that someone got into your account so it is a good idea to check your deleted folder and sent folder often. If these appear fine, the next task is to check for email filters that redirects your mail to the deleted folder.

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