SpamCop Phishing ??? OR Real?

[showker]

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WEBMASTER <webmaster[at]spamcop.net>

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Reply-To: s_team87[at]yahoo.no

Subject: SPAMCOP USER (WARNING!!!!!)

Headers: Show All Headers

Dear SPAMCOP Email Account Owner,

This message is from Spamcop messaging center to all Spamcop email account

owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center.

We are deleting all unused Spamcop 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 o Birth:.......................

Country or Territory : ..........

Warning!!!

Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days

of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Thank you for using Spamcop MAIL!

Warning Code:VX2G99AAJ Thanks,

Spamcop Team spamcop.net beta

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[turetzsr]

...This appears to be an example of what has been reported as "Announcement: spam comming [ sic ] from SpamCop (compromised user account)," a link to which appears on the main page of each SpamCop Forum, including the main page of this forum, SpamCop Lounge.

[Wazoo]

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See also the notice currently on the login page for webmail; http://webmail.spamcop.net/horde/imp/login.php

Also found on the (mail) old-news page at http://mail.spamcop.net/news.php

Noting that even the Announcements Forum section here has a Post that has turned into a bit of a Discussion .. actually not good for an Announcement .....

Newsgroup traffic exists ....

Getting the word has been attempted in all the venues, noting that there is some confusion in that the compromised e-mail account and this phishing attempt basically happened at the 'same' time.