We are still seeing high numbers of the message unavailable emails with a familiar to you subject line & many users are still clicking the links & giving away their passwords. Please encourage everyone to be careful when clicking links & do not enter your Baylor credentials on any site that you access directly from a link in your email.
This morning we received the following phishing email from a user. It appears to come from Microsoft & warns that you have had abnormal behavior on your email account & if you don’t click the ‘Confirm’ button that you will not receive any new mail. This is a common tactic, designed to get you to panic & without thinking click the link & enter your Baylor account & password. It even says that you should log in with you email & password to confirm & to be sure to do so in a safe & secure manner – this statement is designed to lend legitimacy to the email & to make you relax your guard because the email must be real if it is offering security advice. Also note that it is signed BaylorCorporation…we are not a corporation & even if we were it would likely be 2 separate words.
Let’s all do our part to Sic Phishing on campus to keep our email accounts & our personal information as secure as possible!
