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The Latest Phishes Sent to Penn Staters

Salary Notification

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From: David H. Monk [mailto:bsccareinfo@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:44 PM
Subject: Salary Notification

Dear Faculty/Staff,

Attached is the description of how staff/faculty members has demonstrated excellence in support of the school activities. List of all the names of 2016/2017 nominees, entitled to increase in Salary award and position title, department for Years of Service to Penn State College of Education.

Please download and login to your mail account to view and new salary update. All eligible active faculty/staff members will receive a bonus payment instanta.

Thanks.

Yours Sincerely,
David H. Monk
Dean Penn State College of Education
274 Chambers Building
University Park, PA 16802

This email was not sent by the Dean of the College of Education and it includes a file named “award list.htm” that, when opened, shows a website requesting that the viewer log in with their Penn State Access Account. That site is bogus, and if you submit your user ID and password through it, your account will be compromised.

Billing Update

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Phishing message from 2:08PM May 19, 2017

 

From: “admin@psu.edu” <xxxxxxx@psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 2:08:32 PM
Subject: Billing Update

You are required to verify your billing information within 24 hours or your Penn account will be temporarily suspend due to Penn state university  billing department verification process. click here [<–Link leads to a bogus online payment site in the onlinechasejp.com domain] to verify your account

Note: No charges will be made from your card upon this verification process.

Penn Sta! te University
Billing Department

 

Meeting notice

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Phishing Message from 4:28 p.m. on May 16, 2017

From: “helpdesk@psu.edu” <xxxxxxxxxxxx@eagle.fgcu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 4:28:43 PM
Subject: Meeting notice

Dear PSU Faculty/Staff/Students,

For more details on meeting schedule click here [<– Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the lmcyclients.com domain].

Thank you.
The Pennsylvania State University.

Action required on your webmail

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Phishing message from 7:33 p.m on May 10, 2017

From: “admin@psu.edu” <xxxxxx@psu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 7:33:51 PM
Subject: Action required on your webmail

We have upgraded our webmail access to new version, click here [<–Link leads to a fake WebAccess page in the onlinechasejp.com domain] within 48 hours to verify your webmail on our new server or your email will be temporarily disable.

Penn State University
Admin Department

Dear User

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Phishing message from 7:45 a.m. on May 1, 2017

From: “Penn State Administrator” <ansf@zoominternet.net>
Sent: Monday, May 1, 2017 7:45:02 AM
Subject: Dear User

Dear penn state user

Your e-mail account was login today by Unknown IP address: 103.240.180.228, kindly click on the link below and login to validate and verify your e-mail account or your e-mail will be automatically disable for sending more messages.

http://webaccesss-psu-edu.pe.hu/ [<– This address is accurate, but is not a Penn State address. It leads to a fake WebAccess page.]

We apologize for any inconvenience.