Never give your Username and Password to anyone

We're seeing another batch of phishing attacks. If you aren't familiar with the term "phishing", it's the practice of trying to get you to give up personal, private information so it can be used for someone else's benefit, generally designed to hurt you.  Phishers will usually try to get your computer accounts and passwords and/or personal information such as bank account information or other personal information.
The more information you give to the phisher, the more they can do with it.  They could take over your email account, your bank account, or even get a new credit card or other account(s) tied to your name, address, driver license and social security number. 

There is no reason for ANYBODY in our University to have your password. 

Below is a recent example of a phishing email, they're telling you that they need your information to verify that your account should remain active.  You will never need to give your personal information to us to keep your account active and you will never need to update your password with us. 

Summary: NEVER GIVE ANYONE YOUR USERNAME OR PASSWORD

Recent Phishing Email Example

Dear Webmail User,
This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which
periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new
messages are received. The program is run weekly to ensure no one's inbox
grows too large. If your inbox becomes too
large, you will be unable to receive new email. Just before this message
was sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of
messages stored in your inbox on your Webmail. To help us re-set your
SPACE on our database prior to maintain your
INBOX, you must reply to this e-mail and enter your:
Current User name: { }
and Password: { }
(Reference Officer)
You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your
inbox size continues to be between 18 and 20
MB. If your inbox size grows to 20 MB, then a program on Bates Webmail
will move your oldest email to a folder in your
home directory to ensure that you will continue to be able to receive
incoming email. You will be notified by email
that this has taken place. If your inbox grows to 25 MB, you will be
unable to receive new email as it will be returned
to the sender.
After you read a message, it is best to REPLY and SAVE a copy.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Webmail Help Desk.