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“MAILBOX VALIDATION”

July 23, 2018 by jcb388

Filed Under: Not Penn State-Specific, Penn State But Not WebAccess, Phishing, Phisning for credentials

“Account-Update”

July 16, 2018 by jcb388

 

 

 

 

 

This is to notify all the PSU students and staffs that your account information need to be updated in our database to avoid deactivation .Click
View here [<–Link leads to a phishing site with the sitebuilder.name.com  domain] to update

 



This message may contain confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, do not use, distribute, or copy this e-mail. Please notify the UC Irvine Health – Compliance and Privacy Office via email at hacompliance@uci.edu or by phone 888-456-7006 immediately if you have received this e-mail in error. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. 

Filed Under: Penn State But Not WebAccess, Phishing, Phisning for credentials, PSU But Not Penn State, PSU Message and Non-PSU Site, PSU Password on a Non-PSU Service

Verify your Account

January 4, 2018 by mcl158

From: “Psu Account” <fs@psu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <fs@psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:19:13 PM
Subject: Verify your Account

Dear User

You have less than 48hours to complete. Verify your account to continue using this service.
Continue with Verification    [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the devilspeakbandb.biz domain]

However, if you do not cancel this request your account will be shutdown shortly and all your email data will be lost permanently.
Regards.

Penn State Undergraduate Service

Filed Under: Penn State But Not WebAccess Tagged With: generic greeting, link shown is not the real link, no personalization, threatens action

Office of Police and Public Safety

August 28, 2017 by mcl158

From: Redacted <xxxxx@fas.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 5:32:57 PM
Subject: Office of Police and Public Safety

There is a police Situation on campus, We Encourage everyone to read and follow protocol.
This message is sent Via Secured HTML Protocol Click Here to View.
[Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the teamzero.com.cn domain–^]

Penn State University Police
20 Eisenhower Parking Deck
University Park, PA 16802
Email: kam1232@psu.edu  [<–not a real address or person in authority]

Filed Under: Penn State But Not WebAccess Tagged With: bad "from" address, link shown is not the real link, unclear message

Sign in Security.

June 15, 2017 by gle13

From: “PennState Webmail” <stuart67@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 9:20:20 AM
Subject: Sign in Security.

Hello,

Your account was access from another location, Kindly Click Verify Now [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the specialitapizzimenti.com domain] to confirm your IP.

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess, Penn State But Not WebAccess, PSU Message and Non-PSU Site

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