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Removal of Phishing Message from Queen's Mailboxes - 210613 Archived
On Sunday, June 13th, 2021, a malicious email was sent to members of the Queen's community. In keeping with the Electronic Information Security Policy, this message is being removed from all mailboxes using an automated feature in Office 365.

Please delete the message manually from your mailbox if you have received a copy.

If you are not using an Office 365 mailbox or forward your mail outside of Office 365, ITS is not able to automatically remove the malicious message.

If you received this message, clicked the link and entered your credentials, please securely change your NetID password immediately.

If you have any questions please contact the IT Support Centre at x36666.

We have provided part of the removed message for your reference at the bottom of this email.

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From: [REDACTED] <[REDACTED]@queensu.ca>
Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 3:05 PM
Subject: WARNING



Dear user,

Our registration indicates that you recently requested to close your email account and this will be processed shortly.

If this request was made intentionally kindly ignore, otherwise cancel it by clicking ACCOUNT REACTIVATION [LINK REMOVED] to cancel it now and avoid account deactivation within the next 48-hours.

However, if you do not cancel this request, your data will be permanently lost\deleted.

Sincerely,
Microsoft Exchange Administrator.
© copyright 2021


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