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Confirm your fees

April 23, 2018 by gle13

 

 


From: “PSU Admin” <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
To: “Recipients” <xxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 9:48:54 PM
Subject: Confirm your fees

 

Dear Member,

Your new balance won’t be available for security reason Verify Payment now.

Verify Payment now  [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the guiadaautopeca.com.br domain]

PSU™

 

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

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

Attention!

April 3, 2018 by dre

Phishing message from 12:47 p.m. on April 2, 2018

 

From: graham@nasacomercial.com
Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2018 12:47 PM
Subject: Attention!
To:

 

To Avoid Service Suspension, Kindly Validate [<–Link leads to a fake Outlook Web Access page in the komaco.co.za domain] Your Penn State Account.

Regards
Help Desk.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bad "to" address, fake OWA login page, generic greeting, no "to" address

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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