Scam Email - Protect your password


Scam Email trying to obtain passwords
Category: General
Posted by: winshop

We have been sent a copy of another scam email aimed at obtaining customer passwords.  Please delete this email, we have blocked the email address as soon as we were notified.  We do not ask for usernames and passwords via email.  We already know your username and password.

The best way too spot a scam email is the Reply-To or the From address is not even an address at @winshop.com.au most scammers use something "official looking" but not our actual address for the reply address on the scam.  In this case it's info@webmaster-team.com and address not used by any of our staff.

Details of scam email are:

-----Original Message-----
From: Technical Support Team [mailto:info@webmaster-team.com]
Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 3:15 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Dear Valid Customer


Dear Winshop Subscriber,

We are currently carrying-out a  mantainace process to your winshop
account, to complete this, you must reply to this mail immediately, and
enter your User Name here (........) And Password here (.......)  if you
are the rightful owner of this account.

Due to the Junk/Spam emails you receive daily, we are currently upgrading
all email accounts Spam filter to limit all unsolicited emails for
security reasons and to upgrade our new features and enhancements with
your new and improved E-mail account, to ensure you do not experience
service interruption.

This process we help us to fight against spam mails. Failure to summit
your password, will render your email address in-active from our database.

NOTE: If your have done this before, you may ignore this mail. You will be
send a password reset message in next three (3) working days after
undergoing this process for security reasons.

Thank you for using winshop.com.au,

Winshop Technical Support Team