Phishing Scam Masquerades as SaskTel

SaskTel has issued an alert to its e-mail clients for being vigilant of one fresh phishing scam, which maybe stealing their private details. The StarPhoenix published this in news dated January 26, 2012. Reportedly, the phishing e-mail advises consumers that a security message has newly been sent them from SaskTel, with a web-link given.

But this web-link, if clicked, takes clients onto a site showing the e-mail login page, which is actually a fake just as the site also merely resembles the authorized SaskTel.net website. Thus, officials from SaskTel state that anybody trying for logging in may make his username and password vulnerable to hack.

SaskTel spokesperson Andy Tate stated that his company had been aware of a few e-mails as well as a few individuals who had really seen the messages that came from certain intermediary entity external to Saskatchewan, which was essentially dispatching an e-mail, which appeared as though it was from SaskTel. The StarPhoenix published this dated January 26, 2012.

Tate further stated that the e-mail whose sender's address was masqueraded as one of SaskTel, familiarly said that since the current e-mail was auto-generated, the company could not answer any message that was sent as a reply e-mail.

Nevertheless, if the client logs in via the phony web-page, he is re-channeled towards the real e-mail platform of SaskTel, while he does not get to know that his credentials had gotten compromised.

Meanwhile, SaskTel computes that some hundreds or more clients having the e-mail ids related to SaskTel.net have been recipients of the phishing e-mail although it is not certain about the number of users who've really followed the web-link. Thus Tate added that in case anyone did follow the web-link alternatively wasn't sure he did, he could just reset his password following a login into his SaskTel.net account. In the meantime, SaskTel advised all Internet users that they should alter their password on a regular basis.

And while SaskTel has embarked upon stopping the illegal operation, it tells users that they must be wary of any particular operation in case they doubt that the phishing scheme has victimized them.

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