*****  PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY *****

Over the past several weeks the University has been the target of a series 
of fraudulent email attacks that have attempted to gain access to York 
email accounts by posing as the University's email administrators asking 
for password information.

A small number of people have responded to these messages resulting in 
their email accounts being taken over and used to send spam email. While 
we quickly disable these compromised accounts, enough spam email has been 
sent that several commercial email services have temporarily "blocked" 
email from York. The largest of these is MSN/:hotmail.

We are working with these companies to restore our ability to exchange 
email, and on tactics to block further email attacks.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.


Please direct questions to CNS Client Services
(phone: 416-736-5800, email: [log in to unmask])

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