Spam is unsolicited email, instant messages, or social media messages. These messages are fairly easy to spot and can be damaging if you open or respond. Phishing is an email sent from an Internet criminal disguised as an email from a legitimate, trustworthy source.
Do not respond to these e-mails, and never provide any personal information by e-mail. Do not click any links and do not open any attachments you weren’t expecting to receive. Do not forward these e-mails to your friends
Below are examples of such emails that our staff and students have recently received.
- Phishing: Maximize Your Benefits with SNAP (5/30/2025)
- Phishing: : FINAL NOTICE: Action Required to Avoid Account Deactivation (5/22/2025)
- Phishing: Reminder: Verify Your Account (5/19/2025)
- Phishing: Support Team (5/1/2025) - Dear Microsoft User, This is the last time we will notify you that we’ll stop processing incoming emails in your school account, and the reason…
- Phishing: [BROOKLYN: IT Information Security Advisory] Security Update: MFA Authentication! (4/24/2025)
- Phishing:HR Department Messages (4/13/2025)
- Phishing: BC – IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT YOUR REFUND (4/11/2025)
- Phishing: Brooklyn College IT Alert: Final Warning – Action Required!!! (4/11/2025)
- Phishing: IT SUPPORT: Account Update Notification (4/7/2025)
- Phishing: 6 Undeliverables: Quarantine Sync Error for user@brooklyn.cuny.edu (2/13/2025)