Phishing Alert: AUTHENTICATION NOTICE!!!

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:43:55 -0400
notice

Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), detected a new phishing campaign targeting the UMBC community. The perpetrators are alerting recipients that their accounts have been disconnected from the umbc.edu server. Below is an example of the message.

From: SUPPORT <matsmoto@msf.biglobe.ne.jp>

Date: Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 2:43 PM

Subject: AUTHENTICATION NOTICE!!!

To: <campus@umbc.edu>

We noticed that your email campus@umbc.edu have been disconnected from sending and receiving mails

We urge you to re-confirm if your account is still active on umbc.edu to officially unlock it to your default settings.

Re-confirm account

Once confirmation is complete, your mailbox will work effectively.

Copyright 2022 umbc.edu All rights reserved.

Please note that this email is not legitimate. If we realized something was wrong with your account, we would have sent a notification via RT. Also note that the From address is not affiliated with UMBC <matsmoto@msf.biglobe.ne.jp>. The ".jp" at the end means the sender's email provider is in Japan.