There’s been a recent influx of phishing attempts against our subscribers. If you receive a message like the one below, please delete it immediately! We will NEVER send any such messages to our subscribers. In addition, please do not ever send your login and password to ANYONE, including us. We will not request it by email.

Go to our home page to login to webmail

-----Original Message-----
From: Information From PINEHURST.NET Webmail TEAM
[mailto:info_managementcenter@pinehurst.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:07 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Comfirm Your PINEHURST.NET Webmail Account !!!

Dear PINEHURST.NET Webmail Account Owner,

This message is from PINEHURST.NET messaging center to all PINEHURST.NET
email account owners On Wednesday, July 16th, 2008, from 11:35 AM until
7:35 PM, all Mailhub systems will undergo regularly schPINEHURST.NETled
maintenance in PINEHURST.NET Access to your e-mail via the Webmail
client
will be unavailable for some time during this maintenance window. We are
currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center - see
homepage. We are, deleting all PINEHURST.NET email account to create
more
space for new accounts.

To complete your PINEHURST.NET Webmail account, you must reply to this
email immediately and enter your CORRECT PASSWORD here (*********)
immediately for upgrading, Failure to do this will immediately your
Email
address here(***************************) deactivated from our database.
Once we have updated your account current records will be sent your
Online
Account and your service will not be interrupted and will continue
working
as normal.

Your Email Address Here *************
Correct Password Here  *********
Date of Birth ***********

Final Notification, Please Protect Your PINEHURST.NET Webmail From Being
Closed.

To provide easy access to all your account administration functions, we
have moved these functions to easy Webmail at
http://webmail.pinehurst.net
you can also confirm your email address by logging into your webmail
account.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.

Thank you for using PINEHURST.NET!

The PINEHURST.NET Webmail TEAM"

No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.11/1554 - Release Date:
7/15/2008 6:03 PM

This is a common situation these days. Malicious code has been developed to allow spammers to distribute their junk mail a variety of ways.

In the old days, we’d tell people just to be careful about posting their email addresses on web sites or newsgroups. Today, all it takes is an infected machine on which your email address is saved in an address book!

In order to combat spam, it’s now important for all computer users to keep their machines secured using the latest security software and by making sure operating system updates are done. Sometimes even this is not enough, since modern coders can defeat most commercially available Internet Security applications. Why can’t they use their powers for good instead of evil?

Be careful about designating email addresses or domains as trusted. Many spam filters, including our own, allow users to whitelist specific email addresses or entire domains. Imagine what could happen if you whitelisted the entire hotmail.com domain? That means anyone sending you a message with a return address from hotmail.com is going to get past the spam filter. Unfortunately, you can no longer whitelist your OWN email address! Spammers are sending junk mail to you with your own return address!

What’s a person to do? Make sure your security software is up to date. If you haven’t installed anything, please call ConnectNC to have a tech perform a security scan on your system and install your software. If everyone maintained good system security, we’d go a long way towards eliminating spam that comes from infected machines.

Last, but not least, never, ever buy from a spammer. They’re not sending you junk mail for fun. They’re doing it to make money. About ten years ago, one spammer told me that his employer made $30,000 in one day after they sent out unsolicited commercial email to a very large number of addresses. Their hosting and email accounts were cancelled, but it was well worth it to them. So, let’s try to make spamming an unprofitable venture. We should all agree that we’ll never buy anything that was promoted in an unsolicited message we received.

• Make sure your password is a strong one! Read more about STRONG PASSWORDS.
• Don’t ever give your password to anyone else.
• Keep your system’s security software updated.

If you receive an email like this – YES it is PHISHING. Please delete it and never reply to an email like this. We have reported it so there is no need to forward it on to us but please do delete the phishing email immediately. Thank you!!

From: “Web Master-Help Team” <belindab@gam.co.za>
To: <users@pinehurst.net>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject: VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT.

> VERIFY YOUR “PINEHURST.NET” EMAIL ACCOUNT.
>
> Dear pinehurst.net Email Account Owner,This message is from pinehurst.net
> messaging center to all pinehurst.net email account owners. We are
> currently
> upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all
> unused pinehurst.net email account to create more space for new accounts.
> 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.
>
> CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
>
> Email Username: ……………
> EMAIL Password: …………….
> Date of Birth: ……………..
> Country or Territory:………..
>
> Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within
> Seven days of reading this warning will lose his or her account
> permanently.
> Thank you for using pinehurst.net!
>
>
> Warning Code: VX2G99AAJ
>
>
> Thanks,
> pinehurst.net
> Team

You can set up a lot of features in the ConnectNC Webmail. One of them is browsing all the spam and virus emails that our system has caught before arriving on your personal computer. In some cases there may be an email that has been quarantined, or kept on the ConnectNC email server, to prevent your computer from being inundated with viruses or spam emails. If you would like to find out what has been quarantined, and either delete or release, please follow these steps:

1. Login to webmail. Login using your email address. For example, joesmith@pinehurst.net or joesmith@connectnc.net. We encourage you to use webmail while traveling or while you’re away from your computer. We do suggest you use your computer’s mail program, however, to store your messages and address book. Please call our technical support number for help in setting up your mail program.
2. Click on left side of page on the Quarantine menu option.
3. Scroll through the emails that have been quarantined, and click your mouse on the box to the left to create a checked box if you wish to either delete or release it to come into your computer.
4. Once you have a box or multiple boxes clicked, click on the menu option at the top of the screen called SELECT ACTION. Choose either of the RELEASE options.
5. To delete, simply click on DELETE AND PURGE.