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Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail?
From: Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:47:25 +0000
Not phish, but a "commercial scholarship" that functions like a lottery. We block the thousands of spam messages they send to our employees. Bob Bayn (435)797-2396 IT Security Team Office of Information Technology, Utah State University three common hazardous email scams to watch out for: 1) "phishing" for your email password 2) unfamiliar transaction report from familiar business 3) attachment with no explanation in the message body ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Jeff Giacobbe [giacobbej () MAIL MONTCLAIR EDU] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 8:45 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Greetings- Just testing the wind on this one... Our campus seems to get regular monthly 'spam' from an outfit called DegreedUp.org offering scholarship applications (for a small fee of course) I'm trying to determine if this is just your run-of-the-mill unsolicited junk mail or if it moves into phishing scam territory. I can provide a copy of the emails we've received privately if anyone is interested. Thanks, Jeff Giacobbe Associate Vice President Enterprise Technology Services Montclair State University
Current thread:
- Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Jeff Giacobbe (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Bob Bayn (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Harvard Townsend (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Bob Bayn (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Robert Lau (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Jeff Giacobbe (Apr 30)
- Re: Degreedup.org - phishing scam or just junk mail? Bob Bayn (Apr 30)