More evil phishing

So, the university that I work at has been with another wave of phishing. Pretty good face credibility; the e-mail is reproduced below:


Dear GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au Email Account Owner,

This message is from GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au messaging center to all
GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au email account owners. We are currently upgrading our
data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused
GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au accounts to create more space for new accounts.

To prevent your account from being closed, you will have to update it
below so that we will know that it's a present used account.

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW

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

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

Thank you for using GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ

GyeGreene'sUniversity.edu.au Team

Of course, anyone with a decent sense of I.T.-ness would know that this whole this is silly, for any of a number of reasons. Is an I.T. employee **really** going to hand-enter all this information themselves? We were never asked for our nationality when we first got our accounts; why now?

More to the point: with server space so inexpensive these days -- why the heck would they delete everyone's account to make room for new accounts?

Biggest tip-off: They used the phrase "e-mail account center". This is Australia, folks: they say "centre".


Ayep! :)


--GG