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The Help Desk was notified of an email phishing scam today that targets
Wright State students, faculty, and staff. This scam, which may have a
subject line titled "Invitation: Attention: Hi Friend", asks you to send
your contact information to a French address. Multiple Wright State
addresses received the message.

Please be aware that this is a scam. Do not provide your information in
an email or give out your username and password.

If you have any questions about these scams, or if you have already
clicked the link and entered your account information, please contact
the CaTS Help Desk immediately. You can reach us at (937) 775-4827, or
toll free at 1-888-775-4827.

The Help Desk was recently notified of email phishing scams that target 
Wright State students, faculty, and staff. These scams, which may have a 
subject line titled "You have received a voice mail" or "Mailbox", are 
created to look like an email from Wright State University.

Please be aware that these are scams and not official emails from 
Microsoft, CaTS or Wright State. Do not click on the link provided in 
the emails or give out your username and password.

If you have any questions about these scams, or if you have already 
clicked the link and entered your account information, please contact 
the CaTS Help Desk immediately. You can reach us at (937) 775-4827, or 
toll free at 1-888-775-4827.

The CaTS Help Desk was recently notified of a “work-from-home” scam that
could potentially target Wright State students.

College students across the United States have been targeted to
participate in work-from-home scams. Students have been receiving emails
to their school accounts recruiting them for payroll and/or human
resource positions with fictitious companies. The scam requires the
student to provide his/her bank account number to receive a deposit and
then transfer a portion of the funds to another bank account. Those
funds were first stolen by cyber criminals and student are unknowingly
helping them get away with the crime.

Participating in the scam is a crime and could lead to your bank account
being closed due to fraudulent activity or federal charges.

If you have been a victim of this scam you can file a complaint with the
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov and reference Alert
# 01132015a-PSA.

Tips:

-If a job offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

-Never accept a job that requires the depositing of funds into your
account and wiring them to different accounts.

-Look for poor use of the English language in emails such as incorrect
grammar, capitalization, and tenses. Many of the scammers who send these
messages are not native English speakers.

-Never provide credentials of any kind such as bank account information,
login names, passwords, or any other identifying information in response
to recruitment email.

Please be aware of the following phishing scam that is targeting J.P.
Morgan Chase customers. This text is a direct quote from a J.P. Morgan
Chase email about the issue.

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J.P. Morgan has received a report of a new malicious email containing a
malware program designed to steal information and user credentials for
online banking websites. A current version of this email contains the
following details:

Subject: Payment from Chase bank

Body: You have received a payment from J.P. Morgan Chase for amount
17,841.00. Please check details attached.
Attachment: payment-0113-809.pdf.zip

Please Do Not open, click on any links, or click to download attachments
or pictures from the email.
Please Forward the email to abuse@chase.com and take advantage of the
Cyber Fraud & Secure Online
Banking Webinar available in Support and Community.

Malware Alert

J.P. Morgan has received reports of fraudsters successfully installing
on clients' computers malware that requests that the user make multiple
log on attempts, enter token codes multiple times as part of the log on,
or asks the end user to have someone else log on from their machine.
J.P. Morgan ACCESS will never request that another user attempt to log
on from your computer.