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Your Mail Storage Exceeds Its Limit

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From: “Pennsylvania State University” <xxxxxxx@mcgill.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 10:38:04 -0400
Subject: Your Mail Storage Exceeds Its Limit
To: xxxxxxx@psu.edu

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Dear USER,

We noticed your mail box limit, which is running very slow and requires capacity increase for security reasons.

For safety reasons we have temporary signed you out.

Sign back in to increase storage limit and continue your usage [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the hattatnakkas.com domain]

No further action is necessary, this is just a notification for your account safety, just follow the above link and Sign back in to increase storage limit and continue your usage

Thank you

Pennsylvania State University

Mailing Address
Office of Registrar Services
112 Shields Bldg,
University Park
, PA 16802

message From Admin

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From: “Helpdesk@psu.edu” <xxxxxx@ad.fullerton.edu>
To: “Recipients” <xxxxxx@ad.fullerton.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 7:52:56 AM
Subject: message From Admin

Dear User,

We received a request from you to shutdown your mailbox, Kindly cancel if its an error to continue using your mailbox

CANCEL REQUEST NOW  [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the declivitous.com domain]

 

Psu Admin.

ITSERVICE DESK

Ref:MSG2130304

New Message For You From Admin!

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From: “PSU ADMIN” <noreplyY@psu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <noreplyY@psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 12:10:16 PM
Subject: New Message For You From Admin!

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Your student portal! was recently signed from an unknown Location. Please for verification to avoid closure of your account

CLICK HERE>>>   [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the passionateness.com domain]

 

Admin office.

Are You Aware Of This? No Changes Has Been Made!

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From: “Penn State Management” <no-reply0@psu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <no-reply0@psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 11:41:25 AM
Subject: Are You Aware Of This? No Changes Has Been Made!

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Penn State Security Issue
Your profile will be blocked in response to a complaint received by the administration 22/09/2017
According to provision 13.3 of Terms, Psu IT Security may at any time, terminate its Services for account.
You can refute the statement, by following this link:

Click Here [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the wuhuy.com domain]

If this complaint has not been rejected for 2 days, your mail account will be blocked.
Complaint ID: 27472.

© 2017 Penn state management. All Rights Reserved

E-mail Closure Warning For xxxxxxxx@psu.edu

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From: “Admin Notice” <dev@griffinhosting.net>
To: xxxxxxx@psu.edu
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 7:58:36 PM
Subject: E-mail Closure Warning  For xxxxxxx@psu.edu

 

Urgent Server Warning!
We received an instruction few hours ago to terminate your email account (xxxxxxx@psu.edu) from our server.

You need to confirm you made this request or we will continue with the request.
But if you think it is an error, take action immediately to stop this process, else your email will be closed shortly.

Click here to Stop (xxxxxx@psu.edu) shutdown

If you are sure you gave this instruction for your account termination, please ignore this warning and your request will be processed shortly!

Thank You,
Email Security Team
@Admin Team