Today brings us an obvious and classic phish: the traditional email account maintenance notification.

2015-10-08_1401Immediately, you’ll notice that the sender is a University of Michigan account, the byline, title, and signature all say University of Delaware, and the content mentions the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Assuming you haven’t already canned this email as an obvious scam, you’ll continue reading and notice the generic salutation and stunted grammar and word choice.

Beyond that, the email references the “Email Management Center” and “Webmail System,” which are not real UD entities. They’re just real-sounding names meant to fool unaware users.

Finally, the “Click Here for Verification” is a very old and very common means of getting a user to to something that compromises information or their system. Never click on unverified links in email, especially if they’re part of unexpected or suspicious emails.

Basic stuff, but it’s all a reminder that poor-quality phishing attacks are still phishing attacks, and they can still infect your computer or steal your information. If you see messages like this, delete them immediately.