Loyola Information Security Blog

Once again we are seeing attempts to steal money from unsuspecting victims by giving away “free” musical instruments for a shipping fee. In all of these cases, there are no instruments and once the shipping fee is sent, the criminal gets away with your funds. Often once they get someone on the hook, they’ll ask for additional monies. Please recognize that with these types of phishing attacks, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.  One thing to notice is that the “instruments” is misspelled, she is referred to Mrs. Patrica in the introduction but Mrs. Patrice at the end of the email.  If you have any questions about this or any other email that you think is suspicious, please reach out to the ITS Service Desk.


Subject: GIVEAWAY-DOWNSIZING MUSICAL INSTRUNMENTS AND ITEMS

Hello



Mrs. Trevin Patrica (Athletic director 2016) is planning to relocate and looking to dash out Her late Husband’s Music instrunments to any student / staff interested in the instrunments listed below and anyone inlove with music as she is travelling out of states soon. The instruments are

* Violin – brand (Yamaha AV7-44SG)
* Camera – (Leica S (TyR 007) Digital SLR Camera)
* Piano – (Steinway & Sons)
* Guitar – (Eric Clapton’s Martin OOO-42)

You can indicate your inerest in any of these items listed above by sending a text to Mrs. Patrica via
(+1 914-912-3586) only if you are capable of making the delivery fee for the items. As the item awaits you to send the address and shipping fee to Mrs. Patrice
NOTE: TEXT HER ONLY IF YOU ARE CAPABLE OF HANDLING THE SHIPPING EXPENSE RANGING 100 – 500 DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION