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INVOICE

April 20, 2018 by gle13

 

From: “Norris, John D.” <John.Norris@haskell.com>
To: “Norris, John D.” <John.Norris@haskell.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 12:24:29 PM
Subject: INVOICE

Please refer to the invoice and get back to me as soon as you can.
 
Kindly let me know if you have any questions.
 
 
  3 Files (345KB) |DownloadAttachments  [<–Link leads to a fake login page in the dankerkidscoi68.ga domain]
Resultado de imagen para sharepoint logo
This is a secure message.Login to download document.
 

John Norris

Filed Under: Phishing Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, no personalization

Payroll and supporting documents

April 19, 2018 by gle13

 

From: “PSU_Portal” <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxx>
To: “Recipients” <xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:08:28 PM
Subject: Payroll and supporting documents

 

Mekezy Pound (19.04.2018 11:06): ?? Michael Dickson (19.04.2018 12:59):

Hi PSU Member

Payroll and supporting documents have been uploaded to the share file.

 

View Now  [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the www.smallcomb.com domain]

 

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, generic greeting, no personalization

Office account review

April 16, 2018 by gle13

 


From: “Office 365” <pascal@nokill54.com>
To: “xxxxxxxx” <xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 6:58:22 PM
Subject: Office account review

Hi,

Your password was entered incorrectly more than 3 times.

Our security team had to suspend your account %E-mail_address%.
Your account access will be restored as soon as you verify your informations.

You can release the hold on your account  by following our activation link now:

Please click here to proceed with account review. [<–Link leads to a fake page in the boykivshchina.info domain]

This is an automated message.

Please do not reply to this email.

Regards,
Office 365 Team

 

Filed Under: Generic Webmail "Upgrade", Phishing Tagged With: bad "from" address, no personalization, poor grammar

Meeting notification

March 26, 2018 by gle13

 

From: “Pennsylvania State University” <xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:27:39 AM
Subject: Meeting notification

 

Important Message

There would be an urgent meeting on Monday 26th (or 29th) March 2018.
Kindly click here [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the www.laglobetravel.com domain] for more details.

Thank you.
Pennsylvania State University.

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess Tagged With: bad "from" address, no "to" address, no personalization

FAFSA NOTIFICATION !!!

March 22, 2018 by gle13

 

From: “Roychowdhury, Sinchan” <roycho12@msu.edu>
To: “r robinsonsmith01” <r.robinsonsmith01@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:33:14 PM
Subject: FAFSA NOTIFICATION !!!

 

This is to Notify you that your student aid have been approved and to get your total Ransom of $400 kindly Click here . [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the s729743379.1and1.websitebuilder.online domain]

Thanks.

Filed Under: Non-PSU message to non-PSU website, Not Penn State-Specific Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, no personalization, poor grammar

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