Posts written by gerwitz
Good Day
February 20, 2025
This email is an attempt to gather personally identifiable information about the recipient and use it for nefarious activities. It is always important to check to see if you know the person sending you the email. The External Email Notification is a good way to see who the email is actually coming from, since people […]
Announcement: UT Health San Antonio
December 18, 2024
The email is designed to steal credentials. The attachment has a link that goes to a bad actor’s site and asks the recipient to logon. That is when they steal the password. Red Flag – A promise of a part time job that part time job that pays almost $30 an hour with no experience […]
Payment Confirmation McAfee
December 16, 2024
This email is designed to get the recipient to contact the phone number in this email. The phone number is not the Customer Service Number for McAfee. It is manned by the scammers and they will ask the caller to provide Personal Identifiable Information and possibly even bank information so they can “credit” the caller’s […]
Venmo Request for Crypto Currency
December 16, 2024
The subject of this phish is actually Roger J. Ollis Roger J. requests $249.99. The subject will change but the phish is real. This phish is posing as a notification to ensure the recipient actually authorized this payment. But the phone number they ask the recipient to call to cancel is not Venmo customer service. […]
IT Service Timely Notification or IMS Service Request
December 16, 2024
This email has a couple red flags. Always be careful when the email greeting is generic. When someone wants you to do something, they will address you specifically. The threat to permanently delete your account, for not responding to emails from IT Admin, is used to rush the recipient into quickly making a decision without […]
Hello
November 21, 2024
This email is a phish. It is clearly coming from an email address that isn’t associated with our university. Faculty members and other people high up in the organization use their UTHSA email accounts when conducting university business. There is also a HOP policy stating business can not be carried out with personal email addresses. […]
UT Career Center / Office For Disabilities
November 12, 2024
This email has many red flags that show it is not a legitimate email. The generic greeting should give you pause but is not always a sign of a phish. However, when you look at other parts of this email, there are enough other red flags to conclude this is a phishing attempt. If you […]
Smishing Scams Increasing Activity
October 28, 2024
This isn’t about an email. It is about Smishing Scams. Smishing is like a phish but it comes in the form of Text Message through the SMS protocol. Some recent activity appears to be coming from a high level member of our university, but it has been identified as a scam. The phone number the […]
First Name Last Name
July 15, 2024
This email subject has either the recipient’s first and last name or someone else’s first and last name. In some cases they sent the email to someone with the same last name but didn’t have the correct first name. Here are the red flags that help show this is a Phish Attempt. Sender used a […]
Final Notification – Urgent Attention Required.
July 15, 2024
This email is designed to make someone think they have a pending legal case against them. Even if the receiver has never had any payday loans, they could believe they are a victim of fraud and would want to get their name cleared. If the receiver replied to this email, they would be asked to […]