Don’t be hooked by the latest phishing scams

University of Delaware Information Technologies T warns the UD community that a number of “phishing” scams in which e-mail users are being asked to provide their user name and password have targeted University e-mail users.
 
IT reminds you that the University of Delaware will never ask anyone to submit actual account information via e-mail.

Phishing is a term used to describe fraudulent e-mail or Web sites that imitate e-mail from or the Web sites of legitimate companies and organizations in order to harvest

• passwords,
• Social Security numbers,
• credit card numbers or
• bank account numbers.

Whenever you see an e-mail message asking for this information or asking you to click a link to a suspicious Web URL, delete that message.

The phishing scams seen at UD this week purport to come from an official UD address and ask for personal information (e-mail address and password) by return e-mail or ask you to click on a non-udel.edu Web link that will either introduce malware to your computer or attempt to harvest personal information.

If you have any questions, contact the IT Help Center at [consult@udel.edu].

For Further Information:

• IT Help Center’s Phishing Alert Web page
• IT Help Center’s  Security News and Alerts Web page
• UD’s Protect Your Identity Web page (from National Cyber Security Awareness month: includes a short video about avoiding phishing scams)
• Annotated Sample Phishing Messages
   

As published in UDaily:
http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2010/nov/phishing110209.html