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The Help Desk was recently notified of an email phishing scam that targets Wright State faculty and staff. These emails are sent to HR or finance departments in an attempt to gather  employee’s personal information. They may contain specific subject lines such as "Hello Matt" or "Request For All Employees' W2s, Friday 4th March, 2016."

Please be aware that these emails are a scam; do not download any attachments, click on any links, or respond with any personal information to the email.

If you have any questions about this scam, or if you have already clicked any links or given out personal information, please contact the CaTS Help Desk immediately. You can reach us at (937) 775-4827.

The Help Desk was recently notified of an email phishing scam that targets Wright State students. The email contains a message like the one shown below:

---BEGIN SCAM EXAMPLE---
Good day Dear Student ,
I found your information from your school  directory wright edu . I would like inform you about part time personal assistant job is available .Weekly payment of $350.38 cent . Reply back with our personal email address and valid phone number for more details . Thank you .
Mr  Jon .
---END SCAM EXAMPLE---

Please be aware that this is a scam. Should you receive this message do not reply to it and delete immediately. For questions about this or other phishing scams, please contact the CaTS Help Desk at (937) 775-4827, or send an email to helpdesk@wright.edu.

The Help Desk was recently notified of an email phishing scam that targets Wright State students, faculty, and staff. The email contains a message like the one shown below, along with an attachment. DO NOT download the attachment!

UKMail Info!

Your parcel has not been delivered to your address November 23, 2015, because nobody was at home. Please view the information about your parcel, print it and go to the post office to receive your package.

Warranties

UKMail expressly disclaims all conditions, guarantees and warranties, express or implied, in respect of the Service. Where the law prevents such exclusion and implies conditions and warranties into this contract, where legally permissible the liability of UKMail for breach of such condition, guarantee or warranty is limited at the option of UKMail to either supplying the Service again or paying the cost of having the service supplied again.
If you don't receive a package within 30 working days UKMail will charge you for it's keeping. You can find any information about the procedure and conditions of parcel keeping in the nearest post office.

Best regards,
UKMail

Please be aware that this is a scam. Again, do not download the attachment!

If you have any questions about these scams, or if you have already clicked on the link and entered your account information, please contact the CaTS Help Desk immediately. You can reach us at (937) 775-4827, or by email at helpdesk@wright.edu.

The Help Desk was recently notified of an email phishing scam that targets Wright State students, faculty, and staff. The email contains a message like this:
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Urgent technical notification to all faculty/staff, an account submission routine is in schedule this is as a result of unidentified activity in our database.

kindly follow below url to reconfirm login:

Faculty/Staff Only<URL here>
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Please be aware that this is a scam. Do not click on any links or give out any personal information.

If you have any questions about these scams, or if you have already clicked on the link and entered your account information, please contact the CaTS Help Desk immediately. You can reach us at (937) 775-4827, or by email at helpdesk@wright.edu.