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Important Note From Admin..

May 11, 2016 by Paul Carlisle Kletchka

This is another official-looking message that uses the new Penn State mark. However, it also uses a generic greeting, is poorly written, and is very unclear in its directions. The link within the message takes one to a forged Penn State WebAccess login page, which is clear by the address of that page.

Phish from 5/11/2016 at 2:45 p.m.

From: “PSUAlert” <No_reply@Psu.adminin>
To: “Recipient” <No_reply@Psu.adminin>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 2:45:44 PM
Subject: Important Note From Admin..

Dear Valued Student,

We implore you all student to read and reply back to us about this news :-

READ_NOW (<- Links to a fake WebAccess page)

Penn state Management.

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, generic greeting, poor grammar

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