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Re: Upgrade to Available email scam
From: "King, Ronald A." <raking () NSU EDU>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 18:46:17 +0000
Thanks. We have been seeing a lot of these from user.nsu.edu () gmail com<mailto:user.nsu.edu () gmail com>. Had some users respond but luckily didn’t buy the gift cards. Ron Ronald King Director of OIT Security Office of Information Technology (757) 823-2916 (Office) raking () nsu edu<mailto:raking () nsu edu> www.nsu.edu<http://www.nsu.edu/> @NSUCISO (Twitter) [NSU_logo_horiz_tag_4c - Smaller] From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Curt Kappenman Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:15 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] FYI: Upgrade to Available email scam CAUTION: This email originated from OUTSIDE of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe! We started receiving this upgrade to the “Available?” email scam that we have all probably grown tired of. We started receiving this variant yesterday in our system: Subject: <no subject> Hi this is Dr. David Larson, This is my personal gmail. Text me only on here, I need you to do something's for me. Are you available ? Dr. David Larson Dean of the The South Carolina School of the Arts and Professor of Theatre They will try anything to get users to respond. Curt Kappenman Security Compliance Officer Anderson University Anderson, SC ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community
Current thread:
- FYI: Upgrade to Available email scam Curt Kappenman (May 21)
- Re: Upgrade to Available email scam Jim A. Bole (May 21)
- Re: Upgrade to Available email scam King, Ronald A. (May 21)