PHISHING SCAM WARNING

An e-mail has recently been circulating claiming to be from the Helpdesk. It asks for user account information. Please note that this is not a legitimate request. LIS will never ask you for your password in an e-mail. Please do not respond to this e-mail.

The contents of the e-mail are as follows:

Attn. Student/Staff Email Account Users…
We want to announce to you that we will be making some vital maintenance
on the School“s website. During this process you might have login
problems in signing into your Online account, but to prevent this you have
to confirm your account immediately after you receive this notification.
To confirm and to keep your account active during and after this process,
please reply to this message with the below account informations. Failure
to do this might cause a permanent deactivation
of your user account from our database to enable us create more spaces for
new users considering the number of junk emails most account owners
complained of receiving in the past year.
YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT CONFIRMATION
Name:
E-mail ID:
E-mail Password:
Date of birth:
Do you Use Outlook Express?
Your account shall remain active after you have successfully confirmed
your account details.
Thanks for bearing with us.
Computer Help Desk·
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