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The Latest Phishes Sent to Penn Staters

Self Care Portal Maintenance

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Phishing message from January 9, 2017 at 10:26 a.m.

From: Pennsylvania State University Human Resource <xxxxx@psu.edu> [mailto:xxxxxxxx@matc.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 10:26 AM
Subject: Self Care Portal Maintenance

Dear User,

Your self service portal is scheduled for maintenance. You are advised to login to your portal within 48hrs to keep you active in the system.

If you do no login within 48hrs, you will be locked out of all services provided

Click here to login

This message, including any attachments, may contain information which is confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not read, use, copy or disclose to anyone the message, its attachments, or any information contained therein. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message and any attachments.

The entire body of the message is an image file which links to a fake WebAccess page in the jc-podroze.pl domain.

RE: IT Support Help/Desk.

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Phishing Message from December 22, 2016 at 7:55 a.m.

From: “Nar, Bobby Chin Sun (Bobby Chin Sun)” <xxxx@avaya.com>
To: “Nar, Bobby Chin Sun (Bobby Chin Sun)” <xxxx@avaya.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 7:55:00 AM
Subject: RE: IT Support Help/Desk.

From: Nar, Bobby Chin Sun (Bobby Chin Sun)
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2016 8:31 PM
Subject: IT Support Help/Desk.

Your password Expire In TWO{2}Hours Current Mail Users Should Please Log On To IT WEBSITE [<– Link goes to “ICT Account Upgrade and Verification” on a tripod.com website] To Validate

Penn State Access Account password to expire.

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Phishing message from 12/21/2016 at 7:19 p.m.

From: “Help Desk” <rguerras@inea.gob.ve>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 7:19:59 PM
Subject: Penn State Access Account password to expire.

Your Penn State Access Account passwords exceeded limit, which is as set by the administrator, which is currently running at you may not be able to send or receive new mail until you re-validate your Access Account passwords . To re-validate your Access Account passwords , enter the username and password in the column below to validate your account.

Note: Click on the answer and fill in the following columns to send back so that we can update our database account immediately.

Username:
Password:
Password Confirmation:
Phone number:

Present to us

Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.

Library Services

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From: xxxx xxxx <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-11-30 17:22 GMT-05:00
Subject: Library Services
To: xxxxxxx@psu.edu

Dear User,

This message is to inform you that your access to your library account will soon expire. You will have to login to your account to continue to have access to the library services.
You need to reactivate it just by logging in through the following URL. A successful login will activate your account and you will be redirected to your library profile.

http://cat.libraries.psu.uaec.cf/login_…[very long string of unrelated characters]/ (<– link goes to a fake WebAccess login page)

If you are not able to login, please contact xxxx xxxx at xxxxx@psu.edu for immediate assistance.

Sincerely,

xxxx xxxx
University Libraries
Pennsylvania State University
814-86x-xxxx
xxxxx@psu.edu

Pennsylvania State University / Notice

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Phishing message from Nov. 21, 2016 at 1:57 p.m.

From: “xxxxx, xxxxx” <xxx.xxx@apsva.us>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2016 1:57:31 PM
Subject: Pennsylvania State University / Notice

Your mailbox is almost full.

1969MB           2000
Current size    mum size

Dear E-mail User

Your mailbox might be close kindly Staff/Faculty (<– links to a fake WebAccess page at notice-info.bugs3.com) to add more space to your mailbox.

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