This morning, many University email accounts received an email ostensibly from one of our former faculty members (Scott Bader-Saye) requesting financial assistance. The Technology Support Center has confirmed that this email message is a scam and should be ignored and deleted.
Thanks to the Provost’s office for emailing the University Community with this information right away!
An e-mail from “The University of Scranton” (vc@scranton.edu) with the subject “Warning” is a phishing attempt. DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM THIS EMAIL!
Notice that the links in the e-mail do NOT point to any university of scranton website. DO NOT follow any links or reply to the email address. The text of the e-mail is below.
Your web mail account will be deleted in the next 24 hours due to congestion in The University of Scranton web mail user account. However if you wish to continue using your web mail account. you will have to confirm that is a present use account by clicking the secure Link Below. The personal information requested is for the safety of your account. Please leave all information
click here:secure login
click here:email activation
Warning!!! Failure to update correctly within 24 hours of receiving this warning will lose your email permanently.
ThanksVice-Chancellor
Copyright ©2010 The University of Scranton
This has been posted in Thunderbird for a while, but we didn’t ever post it here to the TAG site. IR put up a clarification about Thunderbird’s upgrade prompt:
Upgrade to Thunderbird 3.x? Never!
IT Services began deploying 3rd party patches on August 10, 2010. Initial updates included Adobe Reader, Flash, Shockwave and Java. The current prompt received by many to upgrade from Thunderbird 2.x to Thunderbird 3.x is not being pushed by ITS and is not a required update.
ITS is currently supporting Thunderbird 2.x and is recommending that individuals NOT install Thunderbird 3.x. If you receive the prompt to upgrade, click Never.
