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Sent: 2017-01-19
From: VP of Student Affairs
To: All Employees, All Annuitants, All Students, Various Recipients
From: VP of Student Affairs
To: All Employees, All Annuitants, All Students, Various Recipients
Subject: Email Scams
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">To our faculty, staff and students -</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">We have recently received reports of email scams sent to some members of our university community. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Most recently, there has been a phishing scam involving a check for employment which requires the recipient to return a portion of the payment when the check is cashed. <span style="color: black;">In order to protect our campus it is very important to understand how these scams work and what we can do to prevent ourselves from being compromised.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d; background: #fffefe;"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #006fc9; background: #fffefe;">What is Phishing?</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;">Phishing is an online attempt to gain sensitive information (login info, credit card details, money, etc.) by pretending to be a trustworthy entity. Criminals can use phishing, spam and other malicious email to gain access to your personal and financial information, as well as sensitive university information and access to EIU resources.</span></p><div style="color: #212121; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;">Malicious email typically:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Uses urgent language</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Asks for personal information such as passwords, bank account numbers, user names and/or credit card numbers</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">May have grammatical, typographical, or other obvious errors</span></li></ul><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #0070c0;"> </span></strong></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0070c0;">Suspect Phishing?</span></strong></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;">You can report suspicious emails:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;">Phishes that appear to impersonate a EIU address or service:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;"> Phishing attempts will often impersonate EIU communications. If a phish contains a EIU email address, EIU logos or branding elements, is addressed to students, faculty, and/or staff, or uses other key words targeting our EIU community, please report it. Forward the entire message to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">phishing@eiu.edu</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;"> </span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you receive a phish impersonating another institution or business: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you receive a phish impersonating a bank, retailer, or other institution, please consider contacting them to let them know. </span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To validate all official communication at EIU please visit our website - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a id="LPlnk602991" href="/panthertech/email_verification.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">/panthertech/email_verification.php</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">. This will show all official communication at EIU and give you the option to compare it to the email in question. </span></li></ul><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></strong></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #0070c0;">Compromised?</span></strong></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #333333;">If you gave personal information in response to a phishing email or on a suspicious webpage, <strong>your account may be compromised.</strong></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Change your EIU password at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">password.eiu.edu</span></span></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="circle"><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Click here for documentation for resetting your password</span></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Call 217-581-4357 and the Help Desk can also assist you</span></li></ul></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #333333; background: #fffefe;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Carefully review any online account that became vulnerable as a result of responding to the message.</span></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">If you have additional questions or concerns please feel free to call our Help Desk.</span></p>