Athens security scam

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:44:38 -0800 (PST)
From: martin@skmassociates.net
To: ann.okerson@yale.edu
Subject: Fwd: Athens security scam

For the interest of liblicense-l.

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Subject: Athens security scam
From: "Dave Budd" <d.budd@man.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:18:06 -0000
To: <endnote-interest@isiresearchsoft.com>

I forward this for any EndNote users who use the Athens databases

To: ATHENS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Urgent: Athens Security Scam

The Athens team have received two separate reports from Southampton and
Cambridge of users who have been asked to supply their Athens usernames
and passwords to a group purporting to be from Athens. The actual email is
attached.

This is not genuine. This is a systematic attempt to breach the security
of Athens by collecting genuine Athens usernames and passwords from
unsuspecting users. Please advise your users not to supply these details
to this query and indeed never to supply their password to anyone. The
Athens team will never ask for your password, and never contacts users
directly.

Please inform the Athens Help Desk if any of your users receive these
messages, and please forward the original message to us, if possible.

We will keep you advised of this situation when we have more to report.

Lyn Norris

Athens Manager

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