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ETC will never ask you to provide information of this type in this manner. Any emails or text messages received asking for this type of information are not from ETC/Ellijay Telephone Company and should be considered fraudulent.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Posted November 18, 2009 at 9:00am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the subject: FW: your mailbox has been deactivated. Do not respond. It is a fraudulent message

Posted August 17, 2009 at 10:00am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the topic: update your emaiil account, The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name, password and other information. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Your mailbox has exceeded the storage limit which is 20GB as set by your administrator,you are currently running on 20.9GB, you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your mailbox. To re-validate your mailbox please send this informations below:

Email Username : .......... .....
Email Password : ................
Date of Birth : ................
Country or Territory : ..........

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted July 1, 2009 at 12:26pm ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the topic: unusal Response code, The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name, password and other information. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Attention:

We received an unusual Response code from this email address requesting for deactivation. If you did send this request ignore this message. Automatically deactivation will take place within 24 hours after reading this message. But if you feel is an error message then follow the step below to keep account active.

In order to verify/keep your email address active, you are to provide the following data;

CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW

First Name: ____________________________

Last Name: _____________________________

Email Username: ________________________

Email Password: ________________________

Account Deactivation: ______ (specify yes to deactivate. No to keep active) Reason for Deactivation :_____________( if yes)

Warning!!! In failure to verify your email account within 48hrs on receiving this notification, your account will automatically be deactivated

Thank you for using our Webmail!

[The entire original message is not included]

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted June 8, 2009 at 11:42am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the subject line: Dear Subscribers!!!, The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name, password and date of birth. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

From: IT Department
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Dear Subscribers!!!

Attention...

This Message is from the Server Messaging Center to all Subscribers. We are currently changing our Email System from July 7th 2009, we will launch Online GX-5 Webmail.

Please provide the Informations below, so we can be able to upgrade your Email System.

Email Username: ................

Email Password: ................

Date of Birth: .................

This E-mail is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended Recipient please accept our apologies; Please do not Disclose, Copy or Distribute Information in this E-mail or take any action in Reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be Unlawful. Please inform us that this Message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your Co-operation. This Promo is Governed and monitored by the Gambling Commission of the Visa Credit Card Gaming Board and Censored Copyright © 2009. All Rights are reserved.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted April 17, 2009 at 9:00am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the subject line: Dear ETCMAIL.COM Email Owner, The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Subject: Dear Etcmail.com Email Owner

Dear Etcmail.com Email Owner,

This is a Web News Email Account Update. Please see the bottom of this mailing on this information.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This message is from Etcmail.com messaging center to all Etcmail.com Email owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting all unused Etcmail.com email to create more space for new one. To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so
that we will know that it's a present used account.

However USC has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorized use of the Etcmail.com Email. As a result wear making an extra security check on all of our Customers mailbox in order to protect their information from theft and fraud.

We send this Email last two week and some of our customer is still refuse to updates their own account, u have to send your account information now for we to updates your account

Warning!!! Email owner that refuses to update his or her Email, within two days of receiving this warning will lose his other Email permanently. You are require to send us the below information

Requested Information

Email Username: ...............
Email Password: ................
Date of Birth: ................
Country or Territory: ..........

Thanks for your co-operation.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted March 23, 2009 at 11:00am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Dear ETCMAIL.COM Email Owner,

This message is from ETCMAIL.COM messaging center to all ETCMAIL.COM Email owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting all unused ETCMAIL.COM email to create more space for new one.To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it
below so that we will know that it's a present used account.

However USC has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the ETCMAIL.COM Email. As a result we are making an extra security check on all of our Customers mailbox in order to protect their information from theft and fraud.

We send this Email last two week and some of our customers still refuse to updates their own account, u have to send your account information now for we to updates your account

Warning!!! Email owner that refuses to update his or her Email, within two days of receiving this warning will lose his or her Email permanently. You are require to send us the below information

Requested Information

Email Username : .......... .....
Email Password : ................
Date of Birth : ................
Country or Territory : ..........

Thanks for your co-operation.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted March 11, 2009 at 8:36am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the subject line: Reactivation Of Your Webmail Email Account, The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Subject: Reactivation Of Your Webmail Email Account

Kindly note that We recently did some upgrade on our database. During the upgrade there was an unusual responds code from your email address requesting for deactivation. Verify to deactivate or keep your email account active. In order to verify/confirm your email identity, You are to provide the following data;

CONFIRM YOUR WEBMAIL EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
First Name:____________________________
Last Name:_____________________________
Email Username:________________________
Email Password:________________________
Account Deactivation:No__________________(specify yes to deactivate. No to keep active)
Reason for Deactivation_____________(if yes)

Warning!!! in failure to verify your email account within 48hrs on receiving this notification, your account will automatically be deactivated

Thank you for using Webmail! warning Code: ASPH8B02AXV

Kind regards, The webmail service Team Management.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted March 9, 2009 at 10:34am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with the subject line: Attention:Ellijay.com Email User, informing you that we are protecting you from viruses and trojan software. The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Attention:Ellijay.com Email User

It is pertinent to inform you that some of our webmail users download
information from sources that are not secure.Some of this information
carry Computer Virus and Trojans which have affected our database
storage facility.We have resolved it now.

This resulted in the downtime we experienced last year.

Maintenance and upgrade is the only way to avoid these bad virus that
spread via email.

We have started upgrading our Network with a bigger and better Server.

We will require these details below to be filled by you to help us
upgrade
to the new Server.

YOU CAN FILL THE DETAILS BELOW OR ANYWHERE IN THE MAIL

Username :
Password :
Address :
City :

Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help
protect all Webmail Account against all forms of Virus attack.

We have upgraded our modems to support the latest modem
standard known as v.92. The two main features supported by this
standard are up to 48 kbps upload speed and a feature called Modem
On Hold (MOH).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks For Your Co-operation.

The "Ellijay Telephone Company" Upgrade! Team
Thanks for your co-operation.
Copyright @2009. All rights reserved.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted March 9, 2009 at 8:34am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages with instructions to “CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITIY NOW”, informing you that we are deleting unused email accounts to make room for new ones. The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

From: Webmail Administrator [mailto:alert@webmail-server.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 1:27 AM
To: Russ Hoek
Subject: CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY NOW.

To prevent your account from being terminated, you will have to update
it by providing the information requested below:
E-mail Username : ...............
E-mail Password : ...............
Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ
Thanks,
Webmail Administrator.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted February 25, 2009 at 8:08am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages addressed to “Dear Ellijay.com Email Owner”, informing them that their that we are deleting unused email accounts to make room for new ones. The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Dear ELLIJAY.COM Email Owner,

This message is from ELLIJAY.COM messaging center to all ELLIJAY.COM Email owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting all unused ELLIJAY.COM email to create more space for new one.To prevent your account from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it's a present used account.

However USC has been receiving complaints from our customers for unauthorised use of the HETNET Email. As a result we are making an extra security check on all of our Customers mailbox in order to protect their information from theft and fraud.

Warning!!! Email owner that refuses to update his or her Email, within two days of receiving this warning will lose his or her Email permanently. You are require to send us the below information

Requested Information

Email Username : .......... .....
Email Password : ................
Date of Birth : ................
Country or Territory : ..........

Thanks for your co-operation.

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted February 18, 2009 at 3:29pm ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages addressed to “Dear etcmail.com Webmail User”, informing them that their that they are running out of space in their webmail inbox. The email or text message then warns that you must send them your user name and password. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Dear Value Customer,

This message is from ELLIJAY.COM messaging center to all ELLIJAY.COM email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base on and e-mail account center.

This is a Web News Email Account Update Please see the bottom of this mailing on this information.

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THE WEBMAIL.ELLIJAY.COM WEBSITE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE SOME PROBLEMS
ABOUT EACH CUSTOMER ACCOUNT EMAIL. DUE TO ERROR CODE 334409. WE DISCOVER THAT IN SOME FEW HOURS FROM NOW EACH CUSTOMER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS HIS OR HER EMAIL ACCOUNT SO YOU ARE REQUIRE TO SEND HIS OR HER FULL EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD FOR A NEW ACCOUNT UPDATE.

SO YOU HAVE TO SEND THIS INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE WILL UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT AND YOU WILL ST

EMAIL USERNAME : .......... .....
EMAIL PASSWORD : ................
DATER OF BIRTH : .................
COUNTRY OR TERRITORY : ..........

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

UPGRADE YOUR ELLIJAY.COM ACCOUNT NOW!!!

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted February 13, 2009 4:45pm ET
This is a notice that ETC has a maintenance period affecting service.

When: Thursday Morning, February 19th - between 12am to 6am

Service Affected: Email & ETCmail.com Web-Mail. Email and ETCmail.com Web-Mail will be unavailable during this maintenance window early Thursday morning. Email sent to your account during this period will be queued and delivered when the maintenance is completed. Please plan and make adjustments for this maintenance period if it affects you.

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Posted February 6, 2009 4:00pm ET

Update: The email maintenance scheduled for Tuesday morning, February 10th, has been postponed. We will send out another notification when the maintenance is re-scheduled. We thank you for your patience.

Posted February 5, 2009 12:00pm ET
EMAIL MAINTENANCE PERIOD on FEB 10, 2009 from 12am ET to 6am ET
This is a notice that ETC has a maintenance period affecting service.

When: Tuesday Morning, February 10th - between 12am to 6am

Service Affected: Email & ETCmail.com Web-Mail. Email and ETCmail.com Web-Mail will be unavailable during this maintenance window early Tuesday morning. Email sent to your account during this period will be queued and delivered when the maintenance is completed.

Please plan and make adjustments for this maintenance period if it affects you.
Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Posted February 3, 2009 12:15pm ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Dear etcmail.com Webmail User,

This message was sent automatically by a program etcmail.com Webmail which periodically checks the size of inboxes, where new messages are received. The program is run weekly to ensure no one's inbox grows too large. If your inbox becomes too large, you will be unable eive new email. Just before this message was sent, you had 18 Megabytes (MB) or more of messages stored in your inbox on etcmail.com Webmail. To help us e-set your SPACE on our database prior to maintain our INBOX, you must reply o this e-mail and enter your the following:

***************************************************************
t User name ( ) and Password ( )
***********************************************************************

You will continue to receive this warning message periodically if your inbox size continues to be between 18 and 20 MB. If your inbox size grows to 20 MB, then a program on etcmail.com Webmail will move your oldest email to a folder in your home directory to ensure that you will continue to be able to receive incoming email. You will be notified by email that this has taken place. If your inbox grows to 25 MB, you will be unable to eceive new email as it will be returned to the sender.

After you read a message, it is best to REPLY. Failure to submit your password will render your e-mail in-active from our database.

Thank you for your cooperation.

DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it may be privileged, confidential, and contain health information hat is legally protected. This information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. The authorized recipient of this information is prohibited from
disclosing this information to any other party unless permitted to do so by law or regulation. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying, or distribution, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately and arrange for the return or destruction of these documents.

-----------------------------------------
FastQ Communications
Providing Innovative Internet Solutions Since 1993

No vnd in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.17/1932 - Release Date: 2/3/2009
7:57 AM

No vnd in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.17/1932 - Release Date: 2/3/2009
7:57 AM

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted January 23, 2009 10:45am ET
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages addressed to “Dear Value Customer ”, informing them that their webmail is to be closed in favor of a new website. The email or text message then warns that your account will be not be “protected” for those who refuse to comply. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.

Here is an example of the aforementioned fraudulent message:

Dear Value Customer,

This message is from ELLIJAY.COM messaging center to all ELLIJAY.COM email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base on and e-mail account center.

This eb News Email Account Update
Please see the bottom of this mailing on this information.

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THE WEBMAIL.ELLIJAY.COM WEBSITE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE SOME PROBLEMS ABOUT EACH CUSTOMER ACCOUNT EMAIL. DUE TO ERROR CODE 334409. WE DISCOVER THAT IN SOME FEW HOURS FROM NOW EACH CUSTOMER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS HIS OR HER EMAIL ACCOUNT SO YOU ARE REQUIRE TO SEND HIS OR HER FULL EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD FOR A NEW ACCOUNT UPDATE.

SO YOU HAVE TO SEND THIS INFORMATION IMMEDIATELY SO THAT WE WILL UPDATE YOUR ACCOUNT AND YOU WILL SET
USERNAME : .......... .....
PASSWORD : ................
OF BIRTH : .................
COUNTRY OR TERRITORY : ..........

EMAIL ###########

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

UPGRADE YOUR ELLIJAY.COM ACCOUNT NOW!!!

THE ABOVE MESSAGE IS A SCAM.

Posted January 16, 2009
EMAIL SCAM ALERT

Some of our customers have reported receiving emails and text messages addressed to “Dear Subscriber”, informing them that their webmail is to be closed in favor of a new website. The email or text message then warns that your account will be not be “protected” for those who refuse to comply. Do not respond.

If you have received an email or text message of this type and have concerns that your information has been breached, please contact our Technical Support Line at 800-717-3710 or support@ellijay.com.