Below you will see a copy of an email that is circulating through some faculty, staff, student and alumni USAO email accounts. Please do NOT respond to it - just delete it! It is not coming from anyone at USAO or from USAO's Internet Service Provider (i.e. OneNet), and it is being used to try to get your email password so they can hijack your USAO email account. One way to tell this is the Reply-To: address - in the email below, the Reply-To address shows to be a Yahoo email address from the UK!

NOTE:
* Any phishing email that use a Yahoo email account can be officially reported to Yahoo for investigation, by forwarding the email to phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com
* For more information and details about reporting abuse of Yahoo services, please visit: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-116365.html

Please be careful and NEVER send your password to anyone!

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From: USAO Team <supportweb@usao.edu>
Reply to: managing_1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wednesday, April 16,2008 6:16 AM
Subject: CONFIRM YOUR USAO EMAIL ACCOUNT

Dear Email USAO Account Owner

This message is from USAO messaging center to all USAO Web email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused email account to create space for new accounts.

To prevent your account from being deactivated you will have to update it.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT:

Email Username : ...............
Email Password : ..............
Date of Birth : ..................
Country or Territory : .........

Warning!!! USAO Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this email will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank you for using USAO !
Warning Code:USV64MT1

Thanks,
USAO WEBMAIL Team
USAO Beta