[Staff] BE AWARE OF PHISHING SCAMS IMPERSONATING Dr. EUGENE OLEVSKY

[William Nguyen]

Hi All,

Please be extra cautious when opening emails from people you know, both in
and outside your organization.

I wanted to share some common phishing attacks we have seen:

   - Hackers have been sending spoof emails from email addresses that you
   may know, asking you to view a PDF attachment. They ask you to click and
   login with your email credentials to open the PDF. After entering your
   credentials, you do not see the PDF, but the hacker has now received your
   credentials and will try to send more phishing emails to your contacts to
   retrieve their credentials too.
   - Hackers send an email claiming to be from someone within your
   organization, but have a different email domain that may be slightly
   different from your own. They will converse with you pretending to be
   someone else and encourage you to send payment or give details that allow
   them to steal from you.
   - Hackers have also sent emails from someone within your contact list
   asking you to download various attachments or to click on a link. ALWAYS
   hover over the link to see its origin, and ALWAYS call the person if the
   email seems suspicious. Email monitoring software can’t detect if an
   email is a scam or phishing email if the hacker is using the person’s
   actual credentials to login.


*Please submit the suspicious message to fraud at sdsu.edu <fraud at sdsu.edu>*.
This will help the security team determine the source and how to better
deal with these messages. *You need to also report this message to **Google*
.

*Here are the instructions to report the suspicious email to Gmail as
phishing:*

*https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8253?hl=en
<https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8253?hl=en>*

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With the *suspicious email open*, click on the vertical three dots  (number
*1* on the image above) and then click on the *Report phishing* option
(number *2 *on the image above).



Google will block this scammer/sender and no more messages will be
delivered to SDSU.





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It’s best to always call the person if you are questioning the emails
credibility.

--william

William Nguyen
Operating Systems Analyst
College of Engineering, ENG-301A
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1326
Tel:  619-594-1166
Fax:  619-594-6005
E-mail:  wnguyen at sdsu.edu
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