Instead of the click here to re-activate your mailbox from being permanently deleted or green boxes inviting us to view the entire message, we are seeing a bunch of the previously mentioned extortion scam emails & the ones that come from outside of Baylor but are pretending to be from leadership (your supervisor, deans, the athletic director, head coach, or even President Livingstone) inviting you to respond to an urgent request that cannot be handled on the phone because the sender is in a meeting that they cannot step away from. Although these may not be your traditional phishing emails, they are still scam emails & we wanted to highlight both of them here again. One thing you will notice, especially in the adult content extortion email – the spelling, punctuation, & grammar are odd. This is usually a sign that the email is being run through some sort of language translator & a big indicator that the email is a scam.
Adult Website Extortion Scam (this one is quite lengthy & uses some interesting spacing & line breaks…)
Fake Request From Leadership Emails (notice the @my.com email address, they have also used Gmail addresses in the past)
