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: IT Service Notification (7/15/2024) - We received a request from you to terminate your Office.365 email. And this process has begun by our administrator. If you did not authorize this…
- Phishing: Paid Humanitarian Job Has Been Suggested For You! (7/10/2024) -
- Phishing: A new Capital One document is ready for you (7/3/2024) -
- Phishing: Final Update (6/25/2024) - Multi-factor authentication (MFA) maintenance for your Brooklyn College Student Email on the WEB ending June 26, 2024. https://outlook.office365/bcmail.cuny.edu/owa/auth/logon/maintenance/user/default [link was removed] You will receive a…
- Phishing: Notice Account validation required avoid email suspension (6/21/2024) -
- Phishing: BROOKLYN I’T AUTHENTICATOR (6/6/2024) - Our record indicates that you recently made a request to terminate your Microsoft365 email. And this process has begun by our administrator. If this…
- Phishing: BC Update (6/5/2024) - Multi-factor authentication (MFA) maintenance for your @brooklyn.cuny.edu email ending June 07, 2024. https://apollo.brooklyn.cuny/edu/owa/auth/logon/maintenance/user/default [link was removed]
- Phishing: Job (6/5/2024) - Are you interested in a humanitarian job opportunity to earn $500.00 USD weekly, See attached pdf file (file was removed) for job description and employment…
- Phishing: You’ve received an encrypted message from Anthem Eft Payment (5/23/2024) - This is a secure, encrypted message You’ve received an encrypted message To view the secure message, click view your message. and follow the instructions Sign in using your email address…
- Phishing: Microsoft Service Request Created: Email Deactivation Support (ID NO:145FZs86) (5/16/2024) - Dear Microsoft User, We notice that you have two different Microsoft school email with two different university portals. Kindly verify the two different information to avoid termination…