One of today’s phishing emails plays on encouraging an urgent response.
There are many flags in this messages.
- “Your account will be suspended”?? No. Your account will not be suspended. There are many scenarios where you account may become inaccessible. If you cannot rectify it yourself from your UVic Portal, typically a quick call to the Computer Help Desk should get you going again.
- Who does the email seems to come from?
- Why is it being sent to an email that “looks like” a Microsoft email? Is it a legit Microsoft email?? No, it is not.
- Did you previously receive “multiple confirmations” that were verified to be legitimate? *This is perhaps a play on the volume of email you receive and how busy we are.
- We will never ask you provide your email, username and password after clicking a link. In that very very rare scenario, you would have requested information but typically we will direct you to go to the UVic Account Portal.
This site will land on a Fake Outlook Web Access (OWA) logon page. Note that in this case, there is a Wix banner. UVic does not host advertisements on the OWA logon page.