Dear Marc,
Thank you so much.. its really so nice of you to reply to me so quick with
a wonderful advice and example.
Its just that i had nothing really of this type for the last couple of
years..
Once again i do immensly thank you and God bless you
I will immediately inform and educate all my users about providing their
usernames and passwords.
regards
simon
>
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Benedict simon wrote:
>
>> I dont rule out the possiblity of a phishing attack but since im do
>> running MailScanner I was not really hoping about this
>
> Why do you think Mailscanner protects you from the following --
>
> "Dear kmun.gov.kw user,
>
> This is your email support team. We're going to be doing maintenance on
> the mail system and will be disabling all inactive accounts. If you want
> to keep using your account, please reply to this email and provide the
> following information to prove your account is still active -
>
> Username:
> Password:
> Full Name:
>
> Thanks!
>
> Your kmun.gov.kw Support Team"
>
> The answer is that Mailscanner does *nothing* to protect against this form
> of phishing (spear phishing). It is widely used because it can be highly
> effective against gullible users and undetected by base configurations of
> Mailscanner and spam assassin. If you think that Mailscanner is detecting
> or blocking this then you're going to continue to have this happen.
> Mailscanner's phishing detection is for a completely different type of
> phishing.
>
> I use Mailscanner, SA, Squirrelmail (and other software) to host 40,000+
> accounts (teachers). I see this kind of attack all the time. You can do
> things with SA to look for keywords in the body and flag or delete as
> appropriate but some will get through and only by educating your users can
> you really prevent it. This might also be helpful -
> http://www.scamnailer.info/
>
> --
> Marc
>
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