Cox fraud

I received an email from cox:

Attn; Cox User!!!

This message is from Cox High Speed Internet. Due to excess abandoned web-mail accounts, we are currently performing maintenance on our Digital Web-mail Server to improve the spam filter services in our web-mail 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 below;

E-mail:
Password:
Birth date:

Account owner that refuses to respond after 24 hours 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.

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I forwarded this to abuse@cox.net. It is obviously a hoax.

Just because the content is Cox related the email itself may have originated from somewhere else. Yes, it definitely appears it's to be a phishing email to get ones login information. There's probably links on the page. When you hover over the links it should show unusual URL addresses and email addresses. This is typical. I doubt the email originated from a Cox email account.