This is the second phish we’ve written up today that used a shortened link to try and trick people. The earlier one used a bit.ly link. This one uses a tinyurl link.
Official email about your UD account will not use third party link shorteners. Official UD email about your UD account will always use a link to a resource hosted on a udel.edu system. Even UD’s µlink service creates links that begin www.udel.edu.
Take a moment and inspect the link in messages like the one below, and you won’t click the link. (Link hidden in the image.)
This message is a standard scare (“Oh, no! I won’t be able to read or send emails!) and verify phishing message.
Even though the scam is well-written, it does not contain any links to external verification nor does “VERIFY HERE” link to a udel.edu page. If you see messages like this one and think there’s a chance they’re legitimate, check with the IT Support Center or your department’s IT staff. This particular message gives enough clues that you can see that it is a phishing scam. (Third party link shortener; scare and verify format; no external verification of the message–no UDaily articles, no web pages with more info.)
See this one? Delete it.