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"Password Notification" Scam

Email with bogus link wants to steal your password

This morning DoIT has received several reports of a password change scam that has been going around campus:


From:  ti93943@wildblue.net
    Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:45 AM
    Subject: Password Notification
    To: < @umbc.edu>
-- Dear Member, Your UMBC webmail password will expire today. Visit the maintenance portal below to automatically renew your university password. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IT Helpdesk | University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

If you have received this or a similar email, please do not respond or click on the provided URL. Either one of those actions only shows the malicious actor that they have a valid, active email address. Please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu, and delete the message.

For more information on spotting phishing messages and handling spam, please check out our FAQ: https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/HwMxAg
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Posted: May 6, 2020, 12:03 PM