{"id":773,"date":"2017-08-04T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/?p=773"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:46:31","slug":"its-alert-e-mail-account-validation-phishing-scam-august-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/its-alert-e-mail-account-validation-phishing-scam-august-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"“ITS Alert: E-mail account validation” Phishing scam – August 4, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most recent phishing email we have circulating is shown below. It is similar to others we have seen in the past and once again attempts to trick the user into entering their account information into the site. If you receive this message, please delete it right away. As a reminder, Loyola will never ask for your password or to verify your account.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about this or any email, before you act on the email, please call or email the ITS Helpdesk 773-508-4487, helpdesk@luc.edu.<\/p>\n

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From:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sent:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Friday, August 4, 2017 12:55 AM<\/span>
\n<\/span>Subject:<\/b><\/span>\u00a0ITS Alert: E-mail account validation<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nRequest Confirmation:\u00a065189W5G64H2<\/span>
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\nDate: 08\/04\/2017<\/span>
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We hereby inform you that LUC has queued all email addresses in her database for validation. The reason for this is to sort out all inactive emails from the database and suspend access to them or deactivate them. Therefore, if you know that your email address is still active, please click\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0to validate and verify for\u00a0your email to be marked as active.<\/span>\u00a0Subsequent information will be passed on to you after successful logon.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Remember, we shall pass this message around a few times and afterwards suspend access to email addresses which are not verified and will terminate this service to quarantine this activity.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\nHelp Desk and Compliance Officer.<\/span>
\nMail Administration | IT Solutions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO \u00b7<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>1032 W. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60660.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most recent phishing email we have circulating is shown below. It is similar to others we have seen in the past and once again attempts to trick the user into entering their account information into the site. If you receive this message, please delete it right away. As a reminder, Loyola will never ask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page","category-phishing","category-public-service-announcement","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}