Scams are especially abundant at this time of year, and may show up in various ways, including delivery notifications, deals which are too good to be true, charitable contribution solicitations, gift card scams in which someone requests your assistance with the purchasing gift cards and requests the redemption code on the back of each card, […]
Please be aware of the following spear phishing (targeted) phishing email, which was purportedly sent from a staff member in NYU Abu Dhabi to a faculty member at another University. This very credible looking phish attempts to trick the recipient with the promise of an unusually large honorarium coupled with a request for banking details […]
As rumors swirl about the possibility of Twitter requiring a $19.99 per month subscription to retain the checkmark, which denotes a verified account, scammers have seized the moment, and have sent out spoofed messages purporting to be from Twitter. These messages offer the possibility of keeping the checkmark for free, in exchange for personal information. […]