Re: Upgrade to Available email scam

["King, Ronald A." <raking () NSU EDU>]

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)
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www.nsu.edu<http://www.nsu.edu/>
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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

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