Student, Student Benefit, or College Relief

March 31, 2023

This email was sent from a compromised account so it didn’t come from an external address. The scammer was successful at compromising an internal account and used that account to access the Global Address List and send emails to multiple people at the university. Neither the sending email address or the contact email address listed […]


Kindly provide your available cell number

March 31, 2023

Many people received an email with this subject line, “Kindly provide your available cell number”. The email signature was simple and had the name of one of our Deans or a Chair of a department. This phishing scam utilized our public data to gather the names of high level people in our organization. But the […]


Submission of Research Paper

March 28, 2023

This email has a few red flags: The domain name of the sender and the domain name of the link at the bottom of the page are both recent purchases. This normally means there is a low trust for these domains. The sender doesn’t seem to have any affiliation with the site linked at the […]


Would You Like to be Chair/Speaker in IDDST 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands?

March 28, 2023

This email initially looked legitimate. The signature at the bottom is a legitimate domain name and the conference is being held on the date/location stated in the email. But the person who sent the email is suspect because the domain was only recently created and it has no web presence. The sender would use this […]


Important Fax Received

March 28, 2023

This email has an attachment with malicious code that could be downloaded to a computer or mobile device once it is opened. A red flag for this email is the From field and Reply-To field make it look like it is coming from a uthscsa.edu address. But the label under the attachments shows it is […]


Prelim HUD

March 27, 2023

The attachment in this email contains a possible Trojan. Trojans quietly download to a person’s computer and gather information before infecting the machine. 


uthscsa.edu Confirmation Request Access Friday, March 24, 2023 – 12

March 24, 2023

This is an example of why hovering over the links helps confirm the email isn’t legitimate and clicking the links is probably dangerous. The broken image link goes to a YouTube page. The Authentication link has a redirect to a unknown web page. The sender’s domain name belongs to a restaurant in Lebanon. If you […]


Invoice #11012 paid – see attached receipt

March 24, 2023

This is a Phishing email. The idea is to get the receiver to believe they have been charged for something they never purchased, so they will contact the sender to clear up the issue. The sender will be very helpful and ask personal questions to help “clear up the issue”. This is a common Phishing […]