Whenever You Get E-Mail from Soapy Joe's...

...seriously, do your own freaking laundry. Freshmen beware, it's pretty much another e-mail scam. You'd have to do roughly 74 loads of laundry - about 5 loads a week, wash and dry - to equal their cheapest plan of $185 a semester. Do you do that much laundry?

Not to mention, I know a friend who had nearly her entire wardrobe stolen when she left her bag outside for Soapy Joe's. Someone just walked by, picked it up, and took it.

Can anyone justify them? Is it worth it to any of you?

Email Scam?

I just got this. Seems like this warning about an email scam is, in fact, an obvious email scam itself. Does anyone have official information to confirm:

Dear GWU Users.

The reason for this message is because of the Email Scams & Phishing going on the GWU Network. We have decided to contact all our students and staffs toprovide their password so that we can confirm the active users and to de-activate the inactive user. We regret the inconveniences this might have cost you. Please provide us with the below details.

Username:
Password:

With the above details we can verify active cmail.gwu.edu account.

Copyright © 2008, The George Washington University.
All rights reserved.2121 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20052 Phone: (202)
994-4949
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This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Then, very sneakily, this was on the bottom...seemingly generated by my email, but actually part of the email sent:

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This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by
MailScanner, and isbelieved to be clean.

Who sent this email? Hmm...

from ithelp@gwu.edu <ithelp@gwu.edu>
reply-to paulj101@yahoo.com
to undisclosed-recipientsdate
Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:27 PM
subject Update Your GWU E-mail
Account
mailed-by gwu.edu

Who is paulj101@yahoo.com? Google says nobody. But, a Google search for paulj101 yields a hotmail account and some weird stuff. Ok, I did my fair share of research. Who's got other facts?

UPDATE (July 29, 10:24am): Commenter mit429 points out that on July 7, ISS sent the following:

WARNING: EmailAlert!

This is the third reminder in 30 days about email security. Please remember
that you should NEVER reply to email messages asking for personal information,
even if it is security related. Regardless of how official the email looks, no
such message will EVER come from GW or the ISS help desk asking users to reply
with information such as log-in, password, birth date, social security number,
etc.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the ISS Help Desk at
202-994-5530. The Help Desk is open Monday through Friday from 7 am to 7 pm.