After several weeks of evaluation, OIT's Internet Services has deployed more aggressive anti-phishing technology on the central mail servers used for all inbound e-mail. The software currently is detecting more than 1,000 additional phishing messages daily.
As usual, messages containing known viruses or phishing attempts will be discarded after logging information about the message on your personal block list, available by visiting www.umn.edu/myaccount and clicking "Show Blocked Incoming E-mail."
Internet Services advises e-mail users that the enhancement generally will not detect "spear" phishing (look-alike e-mails) appearing to come from central U of M e-mail administration asking for your Internet ID and password. If you receive any messages of this sort, you should report them to abuse@umn.edu for investigation, and delete them. When reporting these e-mails, you should include the full e-mail headers, especially the "Reply-To:" and "Received:" fields.