Tuesday, June 24, 2008
10:20 AM
Hi Everyone,
Just receive email from Pacnet Security Advisory regaring Phishing/Spoofed e-mails
LOL . . .
No one on this earth can 100% secure IT stuff :-)
Regards,
Smile^_^
Dear Pacnet customer,
There has been a recent surge of Phishing/Spoofed emails sent to our userswhich claim to be from Pacnet. Please note that these emails and thosesimilar to the appended did not originate from Pacnet.
Pacnet will never request users to reveal personal information or securityinformation such as passwords via email.
We strongly advise you to disregard these emails and any future similaremails should you receive them. If you have received any such emails, do notopen any links found within the emails and do not open any attachments fromthese emails.
If you have replied to these emails and have provided your passwords, werecommend that you change them immediately through our Personal e-Manager onour homepage (www.pacific.net.sg), via the links under the "PasswordAdministration" section.
Please call our Customer Services Hotline at 6336 6622 (Option 3) or our24-hour Technical Support Hotline at 6336 6622 (Option 2) for furtherclarification on this security alert.
Samples of the phishing emails which pretend to be from Pacnet:
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1)
From: The Pacific.net.sg Webmail TEAM[mailto:
infoaccountwebupdate.webupdate@Pacific.net.sg]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:31 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Comfirm Your Pacific.net.sg Webmail Account
Dear Pacific.net.sg Subscriber,
This message is from Pacific.net.sg messaging center to all Pacific.net.sg email account owners. On Wed, Jun 11th, 2008, from 7:00am until 9:00 PM, all Mailhub systems will undergo regularly scheduled maintenance. Access to your e-mail via the mail client will be unavailable for some time during this maintenance window. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center see homepage. We are deleting all Pacific.net.sg email account to create more space for new accounts.
To complete your Pacific.net.sg Webmail account, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your password here (***********) Failure to do this will immediately render your email address here(********************)deactivated from our database. You can also confirm your email address by logging into your Pacific.net.sg account at
http://XXXXXXXXXXXX/Thank you for using THE Pacific.net.sg TEAM"
2)
From:
www.pacific.net.sgDate: 6/12/2008 7:13:10 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:,
Subject: UPDATE YOU E-MAIL ACCOUNT (
www.pacific.net.sg)?
VERIFY YOUR pacific.net.sg EMAIL ACCOUNT NOWDear pacific.net.sg Email Account Owner,This message is from pacific.net.sg messaging center to all pacific.net.sgemail account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail accountcenter. We are deleting all unused pacific.net.sg email account to create more space for newaccounts. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below sothat we will know that it's a present used account.CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username : ...............
EMAIL Password : ................
Date of Birth : .................
Country or Territory : ..........
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days ofreceiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. Thank you for using Pacific.net.sg!
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,pacific.net.sg Team
3)
From: "PACIFIC WEB CUSTOMER SERVICE"
To:
support@pacific.net.sgSent: Thursday, 12 June, 2008 5:19 PM
Subject: PLEASE PROTECT YOUR PACIFIC.NET.SG ACCOUNT FROM BEING CLOSED
Greetings to you,
This is to formally notify you that we are presently working on the pacific.net.sg, and this can close your webmail account with pacific.net.sg completely.
To avoid this, please send your surname and password to pacific.net.sg customer care email address: XXXXXXXXXXXX. Please do this,so your pacific.net.sg account can be protected from being close.
Your immediate response is highly needed