Author Archives: Carl Flynn

Director of Marketing & Communications for Information Technology and University Libraries for Baylor University. My staff and I manage marketing and publicity for Information Technology Services and all of the Baylor University Libraries, which include the Moody Memorial & Jones Libraries (Central Libraries), The Texas Collection, The W. R. Poage Legislative Library, and the Armstrong Browning Library. Connect with use via Twitter @BaylorLibraries.

Baylor Student Faculty Relations

On the night of June 11, 2025, Baylor faculty began to see and respond to the following phishing message. The tell-tale signs that this was a phishing message include:

  • Call for immediate action to an immediate, personal concern.
  • Sent from a non-Baylor email address (although in the longer tail of this phishing campaign, the emails were sent from compromised Baylor email accounts extending from the original phishing expedition)
  • Lack of official university branding, especially on something of this nature.
  • Use of a generic signature for what is clearly a direct and likely sensitive personnel-related matter.
  • The fact that there is not an Office of Student-Faculty Relations nor an “Academic Standards Committee” (by that name) at Baylor. In addition, there wouldn’t be a “Compliance Division” to a Committee in Baylor’s organizational structure…or really any university structure. The signature line is essentially word soup.

Here is an example of the phishing message:

A New Approach to Phishing!

In this poorly written and edited phish, the assailant pretends to warn you about being part of a scam as a way to provoke you to divulge some personal information in anticipation of an egregiously large reward. Don’t fall for this nonsense…

—–Original Message—–
From: Elliott Harris <talibusman.40@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 7:38 AM
Subject: Scammed Victim Compensation

This Email/Letter is been directed to you because your email address and country name was found in one of the scammer Artists file and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been scammed. You are therefore being compensated with the sum of
US$350,000 (US$) (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars).

We have arranged your payment to be paid to you directly to your bank account in your country or via a check. To receive the above fund, you are therefore advised to contact the PNC Bank, USA officer who will transfer the fund to your bank account from Reserve Bank. We have advised the Bank Agent to open a private email address with a new number as to enable us to monitor this payment and the transfer communications to avoid further delay or misdirection of your fund.

Kindly contact the PNC Bank officer now with the below contact details:

Contact: Mr E. William Parsley III
Chief Operations Officer
Contact Email: fedheadquarters1@gmail.com

Please send all replies to: fedheadquarters1@gmail.com

Contact him now and forward the below details to him:

1. Your Full Name:
2. Your Age:
3. Occupation:
4. Cell/Mobile Number:

Yours in Service.
MR. WILSON STEWART.
United Nations Funds Investigation Unit.

Please make sure you are a scam victim to respond to this Email if this mail come as an Error Ignore it and Delete Immediately