First Name Last Name
This email below has been confirmed as malicious or fraudulent by the Information Security department. If you have received this phishing email, do not open any attachments or follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete the email.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 free Hotmail account.
- Sender used the recipient’s home address (in cases where they sent to the wrong person, it will probably be the home address of the person in the subject line).
- They gave a one day window to make the call, which is a tactic used to try to keep a person from thinking this all the way through.
