Sunday, June 01, 2008

Murder threats via email



FOTO: Brian Olguin

Several students and employees had a nasty surprise when they checked their email account last week. An email from a person claiming to be a hit man who wants money not to take on the job of killing the recipient, has been sent to IT users at the university in several different versions. The exact number of people at the University of Oslo (UiO) who have received this frightening email is at this point unclear.

- This is a known extortion case. We encourage students and employees not to reply to this email, says Margrete Raaum, Chief Security Officer at the University’s Centre for Information Technology (USIT).

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