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Email Scam
-----Original Message-----
From: Cox Communications [mailto:vic78@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 9:56 AM
Subject: UPGRADE YOUR ACCOUNT
Attn: CUSTOMER,
This message is from Cox High Speed Internet. Due to excess abandoned webmail accounts, We are currently performing maintenance on our Digital webmail Server to improve the spam filter services in our webmail systems for better online services to avoid virus and spam mails. In order to ensure you do not experience service interruption, respond to this email immediately and confirm your account details;
E -mail:
Password:
Birth date:
send all information to: coxxtteam@gmail.com
Account owner that refuses to send his or her account details after 2-5 working days of this notification will loose account permanently from our site data base for email violation. Thank you for being a loyal cox email user, we hope you enjoy the newest version of cox mail.
© 1998-2017 Cox Communications, Inc.
Becky
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8 years ago
The biggest clue in this example is the email address coxxtteam@gmail.com. Emails from Cox will almost always be from @cox.com. You can help us combat spam of this sort by sending this email to phishingreport@cox.net AS AN ATTACHMENT. Use the links below to learn more about spam, phishing, and how to send these types of email as attachments.
http://bit.ly/ReportEmailAbuse
http://bit.ly/ForwardSpamOrPhishing
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