Ladies and gentlemen, Temple University has fallen victim to some sort of wicked, undying “phishing” scam, as the tech-savvy kids call it these days.

In plain English? Someone hacked into a TUmail account and spammed the Temple network with legit-looking e-mails that asked for username, password and date of birth and warned that TUmail accounts would be shut down if this information was not sent.

The folks over at computer services in the TECH Center want everyone to know – no matter how legit the e-mail looks, if it asks your password, it’s a scam. Read more of their comments and advice here.

Consider yourselves fairly warned, and take one for the common sense team by deleting that scam e-mail.

And let’s all hope the scam ends soon for the sake of our teeny-tiny TUmail inboxes that have been flooded with warning e-mails.

Also, check out TUsecure. This is your heads-up that all will soon be required to change their passwords to something with at least one capital letter, one lowercase letter and one number … with the added (allbeit slightly unnecessary) option of a special character. You know, something sufficiently impossible to remember but simultaneously absolutely un-crackable.

Some motivation for creating the new password? Word on the street, as reported by assistant news editor LeAnne Matlach on Monday, is that there are popups on TECH Center computers advertising the chance to win a free Ipod for making the change. Woo! Of course, you’ll have to password-protect that, too …

Just kidding.

Temple is not messing around with this one. Take that, hackers!