Sep 5, 2009

sbcglobal scam alert

Received this email today, and anyone who has an sbcglobal account needs to make sure they do not respond to it. It's a scam to get your password

Dear sbcglobal.net Account Owner,

This message is from sbcglobal.net messaging center to all sbcglobal.net email account owners. The Office of Information Technology is in the process of migrating
all sbcglobal.net email accounts to upgraded central e-mail services. We are deleting all unused sbcglobal.net email accounts to create more spaces for new accounts.
To prevent your account from being closed, you will have to provide the information below to update it so that we will be sure that your account is still
active presently.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW:

E-mail Username : .......... .....
E-mail Password : ................
Location : ................

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her email account within 10days of receiving this warning will lose his or her email account permanently.
Thank you for using sbcglobal.net
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ

Kind Regards,
sbcglobal.net Webmaster.

DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS EMAIL

6 comments:

Rock said...

They are out there. I got one today too.

Anonymous said...

Leo. I also got one this morning,
don't give any info.

Anonymous said...

I have recived 3 today.

Anonymous said...

still going around - just got one

Anonymous said...

I got this several weeks ago and smelled a rat so I called the AT&T DSL support number listed in my phone book. I described the email to the representative I spoke to and she told me it was legit - they were migrating accounts and that I should reply to the email with the information that they requested. Not long after replying to the email, someone hijacked my account and sent out a spam email from my account using a different name. So, I got stung by both the party sending the email and also by AT&T support. Who's in charge here????

Anonymous said...

I got one also....from Sbcglobal.net

a sacm for sure!