The pet-sitting scam offers a great incentive to watch an individual’s pet. The downside is that they will often send you a check larger than the $600 and will ask you to send some of the money back to the scammer. Unfortunately, this check is fraudulent, but your bank will often let you deposit the […]
Read moreThis is a reply-to type of phishing scam where the goal of the scammer is to get information from the recipient by tricking them into sending information to a specific email address. It is a different email address from the one that sent it. Most likely they compromised that account to utilize the Global Address […]
Read moreThis email has a link that will download malware to your computer or device. The External Email Notification shows it is coming from an address which isn’t associated with UT HSA. If you receive an email similar to this, delete it.
Read moreClicking on the link in this email will cause it to download malware to your computer/device. The malware takes over the mailbox and begins sending this same email to everyone in the address book from the compromised user’s account. If you receive an email similar to this, delete it. The email will have the subject […]
Read moreThis email appears to come from a Google Drive share and a number of its links are legitimately from Google. Anyone can get a Google Drive account and host documents with malicious code. This email was sent to a number of people who work for Dr. Hardin but she did not share this document. They […]
Read moreThe scammer is hoping the receiver will click on the link to increase the amount of storage in the receiver’s mailbox. Hovering over the link shows it is pointing to a non-Microsoft domain. Brizy.site is a website service similar to GoDaddy or WordPress. Anyone can create a website hosted with Brizy.site. This scammer created one […]
Read moreThis email is designed to compel the receiver into calling the Helpdesk number provided, and cancel the renewal because it is an error. The Helpdesk person who answers the phone will be very helpful in acquiring the caller’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and bank information so they may credit the account. The Helpdesk phone number […]
Read moreThis is an attempt to gather Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from students. There is a recent trend to target students with promises for financial services, and this is just one more attempt to gather information. The first step of this scam was to use a compromised UTHSA email. This allows the scammer to send the […]
Read moreThis 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 […]
Read moreMany 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 […]
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