Hello
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 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.
I changed the name of the faculty member and school to something fictitious but if you see an email with a signature that looks like it belongs to someone you know, check the notification at the top of the email to see who really sent it. Bad actors like to use real names of people high up in the organization to give a sense of urgency.
The note, “Sent from my iPhone”, is another way to create a sense of urgency. It is meant to make the receiver think it must be really important if it can’t wait until they get to their computer.
