OMG People Are Stupid!!

I work in the IT department of a decent sized state university. Our department recently sent out a campus wide email warning the staff and faculty of an email phishing scam that was making the rounds at the time.

Here is the text of that email, edited for privacy:

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There have been several reports of students at SFA receiving email similar to the one below. These emails are phishing attempts designed to give hackers vital information necessary to access your mySFA account and are not being sent by SFA. No official at Stephen F. Austin State University will EVER solicit this type of information from you via email. If you receive this message, please disregard the instructions. Thank you,

Mr. Blank
Manager of Technical Support
Technical Support Center


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From: "Blank University"

Subject: *Email Validating Please Confirm.*

Dear Subscriber

This mail is to inform all our users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a Subscriber of our site you are required send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.

Further be informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail account details which are as follows:

*User name:
*Password:
*Date of birth:

All Details Must be forwarded to the support team via this email.
supporta105@googlemail.com


Failure to do this we will deactivate your email address from our database.

Thanks


Blank University SUPPORT TEAM

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First off you have to be dumb to fall for something like this. But here is the real kicker-

At least two dozen faculty members replied to the warning email WITH THEIR USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS!!!!!