There’s an email purporting to be from Ameritech, claiming that due to congestion, all ameritech.net users that don’t verify their accounts will be removed from the system. This is a phishing scam out to steal user account information to be used for unlawful activity. If you receive such an email like the one below, ignore it and delete it immediately.
Ameritech will never ask users to submit personal account credentials via email.
Actual Email
From: Ameritech © Mail Center <accjc@pacbell.net>
Date: January 17, 2012 2:48:17 PM CST
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Account Verification (Response Needed)
Reply-To: s_team@aol.comDue to the congestion in all ameritech.net users and removal of all unused Accounts, ameritech.net would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button,
* Username:
* Password:
* Re- Confirm Password:
* Date of Birth:
* Country or Territory:*After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Warning!!!: Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two days of receiving this warning stands the risk of losing his or her account permanently.
As you can see the email isn’t from Ameritech and they would never use an email account from another ISP.
About: Ameritech was acquired by SBC Communications in 1999 which subsequently acquired AT&T Corporation in 2006, becoming the present-day AT&T Inc.
I am pretty saavy, but when in doubt, I always ask my mentor – I had heard that ameritech may switch things up, having an old old .net email, was wise enuff to not respond, but had to question the email anyhow!
Susie,
Glad you gave me the heads up!
Thanks so much for sharing this information with your readers. I’ve heard about this scam mail but have not received one so far and to be honest by now, I have forgotten the name Ameritech. I’ll keep in mind what you shared, thanks!
Thank you. Just got this phish too…if it looks like a phish, smells like a phish, it’s probably a phish… throw it back!
Gary,
If it looks like a phish it probably is. Thanks for the comment!