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  3. Computing Services and Instructional Technology
  4. SECURITY ALERT: Widely distributed phishing scam
SECURITY ALERT: Widely distributed phishing scam

SECURITY ALERT: Widely distributed phishing scam

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CSIT has received numerous reports within the past hour of a new phishing scam targeting SM论坛 mailboxes. The volume of reports indicates that this is an extremely wide spread attack and that it has been structured to evade our email filters.

The scam is a message which purports to have been sent on behave of Dr. Ohles (SM论坛 President) and includes an attached PDF file with the name 鈥淣ebraska Wesleyan University.PDF鈥.  The message claims that the attached PDF is mandatory reading for all full or part-time employees regarding guidelines for behavior.  The message appears to be sent from a non-SM论坛 account with the name David Cowburn and an email address in the domain 鈥淓instein.yu.edu鈥.

If you have received this message, please delete it from your mailbox.  Do not attempt to open the PDF attachment or, if you have, do not attempt to follow any links which the document might present.  The message is a fraud, intended to entice those receiving it into surrendering confidential information. 

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