Phishing: Email Administrator IT Service

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If you recently received an e-mail from something as vague as "Email Administrator IT Service", don't believe it (not that you would have anyways).  The body of the message is something like the following:

Dear subscribers.

This message is from the Email Administrator  IT Service to all our email account subscribers.You are to provide to us the below information to revalidate your account due to spam and to upgrade the new 2010 spam version.

Notice:Your access.k12.wv.us  Email account will be expired after a week, if you do not revalidate or update your account. Please do co-operate with us so we can serve you better, contact the adminstrator!!****

User Name:
Password:
Confirm Your Password:
Alternative Email :

Thank You.
 Email Administrator
Warning Code :ID67565434


Okay, just reading this message should be throwing up alarms in your mind.  No IT administrator would ever ask you for your password, they are admins and have the ability to make changes that doesn't require your password.  This particular e-mail originated from within Canada.

Received: from duo.kics.bc.ca (68.233.169.222)
  by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with SMTP; 15 May 2010 17:16:15 -0400
Received: (qmail 18103 invoked from network); 15 May 2010 21:08:54 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO squirrel.kics.bc.ca) (68.233.169.222)
  by kics.bc.ca with SMTP; 15 May 2010 21:08:53 -0000
Received: from 82.128.112.55
        (SquirrelMail authenticated user market@eco.kics.bc.ca)
        by squirrel.kics.bc.ca with HTTP;
        Sat, 15 May 2010 14:08:53 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <46ef1fc8b2696f757c51403ff8ec660f.squirrel@squirrel.kics.bc.ca>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:08:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Dear subscribers.
From: "E-MAIL. MANAGEMENT" <info@microsoft.org>
Reply-To: upgradingteam@24.tc

This is something to look out for.  Below is a capture of the actual email item.

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