Visit the Pennsylvania State University Home Page

Stop Phishing Scams

The Latest Phishes Sent to Penn Staters

  • Office of Information Security
  • Phishing Home
  • What Is Phishing?
  • How to Report a Phish

Attention Please Read

January 22, 2018 by gle13

 

From: “Psu Account” <callsbrook@nccu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <callsbrook@nccu.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 12:00:46 PM
Subject: Attention Please Read

 

Dear Psu User,

Monday, January 22, 2018

Our Record Indicates That You Recently Made a Request to Shutdown Your Email Account. And this Request Will be Processed Shortly.
If this Request was Made Accidentally and You Have no Knowledge of it, You are Advised to Cancel the Request Now

Click Link to Cancel: https://psu.edu/cancel/Login.aspx [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the chelior.com domain]

However, if You do not Cancel this Request, Your Email Account will be Shutdown Shortly and all Your Email Data will be Lost Permanently.

Regards,
 Psu Business Email Administrator.

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

Re: NOTE: New Message For You From Admin!!!

January 12, 2018 by gle13

From: “PSU HELP-DESK” <xxxxxxxxxxx@psu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <xxxxxxxxxxx@psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:14:57 PM
Subject: NOTE: New Message For You From Admin!!!

 

Image result for psu.edu

Dear User,

    We received a request from you to Disable your Email Account, Kindly cancel if its an error to continue using your mailbox.,

             CANCEL REQUEST & RECTIFY THIS PROBLEM [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the danielevecchiotti.it domain]

RESOURCES
For additional information on Ransomware, please see US-CERT Alert  TA16-091A.

For additional information and training, you can check out PSU IT Security Training.

If you need assistance please call 325-HELP (4357) during normal business hours, or visit needhelp.psu.edu at any time.

Fullerton Information Technology

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, generic greeting, link shown is not the real link

Warning!! Email Account Block Notification / Verify

January 2, 2018 by mcl158

From: “PSU SECURITY” <u3902828@psu.edu>
To: “Recipients” <u3902828@psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 10:53:03 PM
Subject: Warning!! Email Account Block Notification / Verify

Dear User

We received a request to terminate your Pennsylvania State University. Your request is being processed and all associated data will be removed from our server shortly.

If this wasn’t you, please use this link to below to stop request and continue account usage.

Click here to stop request now  [<–Link leads to a now removed page in the global-packaging.fr domain]

If you made this request, you’re all set and no further action is required from you.

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

Important: Notification of account upgrade

December 12, 2017 by gle13

 

From: “Mícrosoft ®” <no-reply@auth.omni-microsoft.com>
To: contact@user.office.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 10:46:53 AM
Subject: Important: Notification of account upgrade

 

Your Office 365 validation is required. Sign in [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the afuttwe.com domain] now to avoid loss of emails and other records.

 

Office 365

Your Office 365 Important Update

 

Thank you,

The Microsoft Online Services Team

 

 

 

Filed Under: Non-PSU message to non-PSU website Tagged With: bad "from" address, bad "to" address, bad link address, link shown is not the real link, no "to" address, no personalization

Your Penn State Email will expire and it will be disabled

December 12, 2017 by gle13

 

​​​—– Original Message —–
​​​​From: “PennState” <xxxxxxxx@psu.edu>
To: “PennState” <xxxxxxx@psu.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 6:30:16 PM
Subject: Your Penn State Email will expire and it will be disabled

​​​​​Description: Description:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/x/x/xxxxxxx/Penn%20State%20New%20Logo.png

Dear Penn State Email User,

It has come to our attention that your Penn State profile information is
out of date.

* You must update your profile as soon as possible.

– Penn State Email Sign In <http://kebshj.com/us/pennedu/edusi.html> [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the www.iqs2.com domain]
–

 

You are receiving this e-mail because you are a Penn State Community
member.

 

Contact Us. 201 Old Main, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Filed Under: Fake WebAccess Tagged With: bad "to" address, generic greeting, link shown is not the real link, no personalization

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • …
  • 18
  • Next Page »

Recently Reported Phishes

  • College Employment Job scam July 3, 2024
  • “MAILBOX VALIDATION” July 23, 2018
  • “New Message For You!” July 19, 2018
  • “Service Require Important Update Due To Insufficient Bandwidth” July 18, 2018
  • “Payment Received!” July 16, 2018
  • “Account-Update” July 16, 2018
  • “A notice from Microsoft(R) Network” July 11, 2018
  • “>>>New messages are on-hold!” July 10, 2018
  • “payment received today.” July 6, 2018
  • “Psu Account User” July 3, 2018

Search for a phishing message…

All Reported Phishes – By Month

  • July 2024
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016

Subscribe to our Phishing feed

  • RSS - Posts
This website is maintained by the Office of Information Security (OIS).
 Visit the Pennsylvania State University Home Page
Copyright 2025 © The Pennsylvania State University Privacy Non-Discrimination Equal Opportunity Accessibility Legal