Computing & Information Services
Email Threats
Don't take the bait! This page shows example email threats, such as phishing scams, that you should avoid. Phishers are fishing for your personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. Never provide this information by replying or following links in the email. Under no circumstances will CUS or other members of the CIS department ask for your password. If in doubt about the legitimacy of an email, contact CUS. To learn how to keep yourself protected, visit our phishing page.
To report a phishing scam you receive, email it (with full headers) to report-phish@reed.edu.
Good News - Posted
This latest phishing email is nothing but bad news! Don't be fooled into submitting your username and password in the google form linked in the email.
From: Reed College News Forum <news@reed.edu>
Subject: GOOD NEWSYou can now login to Reed College news forum and get the latest information and news/update. Please use the database link: https://docs.google.com/a/blumail.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGlsd.... to login for more information about this service.
Sign,
HELPDESK
©2012 Reed College.
Reed College | Phone: 503-771-1112 | Fax: 503-777-7769 | Address: 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon 97202-8199
"New Secure Message Regarding Your Reed College Webmail" - Posted
Don't be fooled into entering your Reed username/password on a cleverly crafted non-Reed login page designed to look like the real thing. This phishing email started to surface on April Fool's Day. This is no joke!
The following is what a user would see if they clicked on the "Click here to Log In" link from within the email. The website looks legitimate, but is it really? Click on the image below to learn more!
Compare the above phishy web page to Reed's legitimate login page (featured below). How can you tell the difference? Click on the image below to learn more!
New Outlook Web Access - Posted
Several variations of this phishing email are landing in the Inboxes of Reedies. This one cleverly refers to our transition to a new Webmail interface, "Reedcube". Although it is true that we are switching to a new Webmail interface, this email is hoping to steal your Reed credentials by tricking you into entering them on a bogus website. Don't be fooled by this one!
Reed College is migrating its email system, this migration will provide Reed mail users with many benefits including additional inbox storage (5GB), a more robust webmail solution (more secure Outlook Web Access), mobile device support and an integrated email and diary.
Please Click HERE to complete the migration steps through the login
before your account will be fully available.
©2012 Reed College
The website linked in the phishing email:
Your Amazon.com order has shipped! - Posted
Here is a different phishing approach that pretends to be from Amazon about an order that has shipped. Variations of this message will include a different product than shown in the example below. Don't click on the link in the email! It's just an attempt to get you to reveal your username and password!
Subject: Your Amazon.com order of "Canon Pixma MX882 Wireless Office All-in-One Inkjet Printer" has shipped!
Shipping Confirmation
Order # 365-5894215-2021338
Your estimated delivery date is:
Tuesday, December 22, 2011
Track your package Thank you for shopping with us. We thought you'd like to know that we shipped this portion of your order separately to give you quicker service. You won't be charged any extra shipping fees, and the remainder of your order will follow as soon as those items become available. If you need to return an item from this shipment or manage other orders, please visit Your Orders on Amazon.com.
Shipment Details
Canon Pixma MX882 Wireless Office All-in-One Inkjet Printer $119.95
Item Subtotal: $119.95
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Total Before Tax: $119.95
Shipment Total: $119.95
Paid by Visa: $119.95
You have only been charged for the items sent in this shipment. Per our policy, you only pay for items when we ship them to you.
Returns are easy. Visit our .
If you need further assistance with your order, please visit Customer Service.
We hope to see you again soon!
Amazon.com
New scam requesting tutors - Posted
The following email is targeting colleges and universities. See the initial and secondary response from the scammer.
Initial contact email:
Good Morning
My name is Valerie Weiss today I was surfing the internet and I found your email contact on the Dept University's website. I am presently looking for tutor for my son Ethan, we live here in England and he has completed high school last summer back home in Slovakia. He has been ice-hockey camping for the past month and we feel it is a forward decision for us to get him a tutor to in physics as he wants to be an engineer.
He scored a B in Physics recently in his Cambridge O"Level exam and we are hoping his sporting activities will not deter he academic pursuit.
Let me know your hourly rates and also time during the week and on week ends you will be available to coach him (total number of hours you can use with him a week). Please let us hear from you soon as he would be in Canada in a couple of days/week to stay with my sister in-law for the time been and I will very much appreciate it very much if you can introduce me to someone qualified in the case you are not available.
Thanks
Valerie
After a grad student replied, they received the following response:
Good Morning <Grad Student Name>
I am particularly pleased to hear from you, my husband and I have gone over this, we are very happy because we know Ethan will be in safe hands.
Ethan will be in the states in the coming week. I want you to work with him and open him up to the idea of college education as I believe you are clearly a professional in this field .
I want you to know that my husband and i had initially hired a private tutor for Ethan and he was supposed to tutor him for two months preparing him for his SAT test again, this is because we weren't sure he passed the test, we already paid him upfront for but just before we concluded on lesson days and time, he lost his wife and decided to quit teaching and take proper care of his family but he has long agreed to have my money sent to any alternative tutor who'll be handling Ethan with his lessons. Luckily for us Ethan passed his SAT and scored 1320 points I was so surprised.
As we speak now Ethan doesn't need SAT coaching anymore and since you are his new tutor the payment you will receiving is the amount of $2,950, I'll need you to have your costs for Ethan's lessons as agreed at ($450) deducted from the funds received and have what's left sent out via western union to Ethan's travel arrangements as the funds will be used in securing his flight tickets and BTA (Basic Travel Allowance) as this is highly required upon his arrival at the Canadian airport according to the Canadian Immigration rules and also required as proof of funds.
I know you would ask the question why cant my sister in-law handle this for us? As we speak is she recently put to bed with some complications in Sweden, due to be back in another 5 weeks or so, her house keeper is of Spanish origin with no knowledge of the internet,s he understands and speaks little English.I hope you can understand that it would be a whole lot more difficult if I were to ask her to help me here since I dont even speak Spanish at all.
If this OK, I'll need you to provide me with your full name as to be written on the payment, your contact address(where the payment will be sent to and your phone number and I'll instruct to have the payment issued and sent out to your location asap.
OK then have a great day and get back to me and i can make relevant arrangements duly then.Also anytime or day of the week that suits you best for lessons works just fine with us as Ethan's schedule for now is fully open.
Regards,
Valerie
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