Announcements

FROM: UTECH RE: SPAM/Phishing Email
Sent:
1/18/2018 10:34:32 AM
To: Students, Faculty, Staff

 

There have been a few phishing emails going around lately, asking for you to verify your account information.  As a reminder, Cal U will never ask you to verify an account and all correspondence will come from an @calu.edu email address.  We continue to adjust our spam filters; however, it is impossible to stop every message from getting through.

Please use caution when encountering these types of email messages and take the following preventative measures to protect yourself from phishing scams and malware campaigns:

·         Verify the URL (web address) of a website before clicking on a link. Malicious websites may look identical to a legitimate site, but the URL may use a variation of spelling or a different name.

·         Don’t send sensitive information over the Internet before checking a website’s security.

·         Do not reveal personal or financial information, and do not respond to e-mail solicitations for this information. This includes following links sent in e-mail.

·         Never respond to suspicious e-mails or click on links inside suspicious messages.

·         Maintain up-to-date antivirus software.

·         Avoid filling out forms in e-mail messages that ask for personal information.

 

·         Never purchase anything advertised through unsolicited e-mail.