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April 28, 2017 by Paul Carlisle Kletchka

Penn Staters are again receiving a message that was first reported to OIS at the beginning of March. A link in the message takes one to a fake WebAccess page in the reliancesecurityindia.com domain.

To view the message in its entirety, please see the original post from March 6, 2017.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

ACCOUNT VERIFICATION (FINAL WARNING)

April 12, 2017 by Paul Carlisle Kletchka

Phishing message from 9:06 a.m. on April 12, 2017

From: “Office Mail” <guest3@ti-edu.ch>
To: “Recipients” <guest3@ti-edu.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 9:06:38 AM
Subject: ACCOUNT VERIFICATION (FINAL WARNING)

WebMail Portal+
Dear Customer, Thank you for using our verification system.

Click Here to Verify you are the true owner of this account. [<– Link leads to a fake Microsoft login page that looks like the login page for Yammer]
NOTE: Please do not click the link more than once.

Ignorance Of this mail will lead to permanent lock.
Thanks.
Webmail©

Filed Under: Not Penn State-Specific Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, no personalization, poor grammar, threatens action

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