You likely received an email in the past few days claiming to be from the “Email Support Edu Team” or “Colorado College email support team”.  The subject line is generally “Colorado College email address: urgent message from the portal”, and it goes on to claim that we are “upgrading our site” and saying that you have to send us your username and password to ensure your account is not disabled / deleted.This message is a phishing scam (in fact, it’s almost the same as similar scams in October of 2008, and January of 2009 with some wording changes – both of which resulted in CC email getting blacklisted by major email providers for several days).  Please ignore and delete it.

A reminder – we will never ask for your username / password over email.  If an email asks you for that type of private information, no matter what it looks like or who it claims to be from, you can immediately identify it as a scam.

For more information and tips on how to spot scams and protect yourself and your computer from these types of malicious attacks, see our informative webpage here: http://helpdesk.coloradocollege.edu/index.php/tips-and-how-to/protect-your-computer/