This phishing scam was reported by a couple of readers. It’s not been tailored to UD; however, quickly scanning email and seeing a note from IT Service that your email account needs validating may catch a few people. Particularly if folks open the message and glance at the “Warning” subheading and copyright notice.
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A few clues that this is not legitimate email:
- The message did not come from a udel.edu address.
- The Reply-To: address is phishy (pun intended): “noreply@itservice” is an invalid email address format.
- If you hover your mouse over the phrase “Clicking Here,” you’ll see the phisher is trying to lure you to click on a non-UD link (not something in the udel.edu domain!) to harvest too much personal information.
- Even though no words are misspelled, there are plenty of typos. For example:
- Email is spelled “Email,” “E-mail,” “email,” and “e-mail.”
- In the middle of different sentences, “account” is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not.
- There’s spacing on either side of the period (.) in the middle of the copyright notice.
We’re not perfect, but our copy editing standards are a bit higher than that.
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