Today a number of UVic recipients received an impersonation email supposedly from the president Jamie Cassels.
The email looked like this:
This is a typical start of a gift card scam. We wrote about those back in November:
https://www.uvic.ca/systems/status/notices/current/gift-card-scam_nov2019.php
and later on the topic was covered with more detail by our Chief Information Security Officer:
https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/cisoblog/2020/02/20/an-email-exchange-with-the-president-not-really/
Please do not respond to impersonating emails (even for fun) and report them by using the “phish” button.