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From: “Pennsylvania State University” <noreply@ust.hk>
To: “Recipients” <noreply@ust.hk>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 5:47:12 PM
Subject: **locked**

Your student portal! Was recently signed from an unknown location.

Please for verification to avoid closure of your account

CLICK HERE  [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the shaoboutique.com domain]

 

. . Admin office

Pennsylvania State University

PSU MAIL UPDATE…

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From: “PSU Datalogs” <xxxxxxxx@psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 2:59:07 PM
Subject: PSU MAIL UPDATE…

 

PENN STATE
Dear users
 
Your inbox account has reached an Upgrade stage and All your incoming message will be pending,  If you still an active user please Verify Your User ID to continue usage. Please do not ignore this email to ! avoid your account deleted from PSU database,
 
click the button to verify your account:  PSU Database [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the http://psudesks.wulistshop.com domain]

Thanks and Regards
PSU WEB ACCESS Inc

: IT Help desk.

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From: “Williams, Trudy” <xxxxxx@christushealth.org>
To: “Williams, Trudy” <xxxxxx@christushealth.org>
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 12:52:18 PM
Subject: : IT Help desk.

To All Employees\Staff,

Take note of this important update that our new web mail has been improved with a new messaging system from Owa/outlook which also include faster usage on email, shared calendar, web-documents and the new 2016 anti-Spam version.

Kindly use the link below to complete your 2016 Outlook Webmail User Authentication form.

CLICK on Outlook Web Access<http://microsoft-outlook-web-account.sitey.me/> to  update immediately.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: Confidential information, such as identifiable patient health information or business information, is subject to protection under state and federal law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you may not disclose, print, copy or disseminate this information. If you have received this in error, please reply and notify the sender (only) and delete the message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law.

Phishing message from Oct. 3, 2015 at 12:52 p.m.

: IT SERVICE HELP DESK !

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This phish provides many clues that give it away as a scam message.

  • The “From:” address has nothing to do with Penn State
  • There is no “To:” address – any message regarding your account should be addressed specifically to you
  • The greeting is a very generic “ATTENTION!!!”
  • The wording of the message is somewhat confusing
  • The link in the message points to a sitey.me address, which has nothing to do with Penn State
  • The page one is taken to is a labeled with “2016 MICROSOFT WEB-MAIL UPGREADE” – Penn State’s WebMail is not a Microsoft product, and upgrade is misspelled on the page

Phish from July 27, 2016 at 12:26 p.m.

From: “Lee, Alex” <xxxxxxx@herts.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 12:26:49 PM
Subject: : IT SERVICE HELP DESK !

ATTENTION!!!

Take note of this important update that our new web mail has been improved with a new messaging system from My Access which also include faster usage on email, shared calendar,web-documents and the new 2016 anti-spam version.

Please use the link below to complete your update for our new My Access improved web mail.

CLICK on Outlook Web Access<– Links to a sitey.me fake Microsoft webmail page to update immediately.

IT SERVICE TEAM