Phishing Alert: President Freeman A. Hrabowski impersonator

Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:28:49 -0400
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Recently, DOIT received an email from a compromised account at North Central Kansas Technical College(NCKTC) impersonating Dr Hrabowski. The email consisted of a Microsoft word document titled “EVALUATION FORM.” Below is a copy of the email. We removed the name of the NCKTC user and the To field for privacy reasons.

From: NCKTC member’s name <userID@ncktc.edu>

Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 12:00 PM

Subject: NCKTC member name shared "EVALUATION FORM" with you.

To:

The link for the email will take you to the EVALUATION FORM document. See below to look inside the Word docs.

This link will ask you to sign in to your Microsoft account to view a file/form that the compromised account shared on One Drive. DO NOT CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS IN THE EMAIL OR THE DOCS. However, if you have done so already, please contact us immediately at security@umbc.edu.

A lot of phishing emails contain a link that asks the recipients to sign into their accounts. Whenever you receive such emails, always try and verify with the senders on an entirely different email if you know them. Feel free to always send the message to us to validate the email.

For more information about phishing, visit: https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=98136.

If you have received any message similar to the one listed above, please forward it with its headers to security@umbc.edu. For instructions, visit: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970.