This phish spoofed a UVic email address but actually came from outside of UVic. As well as the empty subject line, there are plenty of red flags in the message content:
- The message instills a false sense of urgency and threatens an adverse impact.
- There are plenty of capitalization and grammatical errors, and the spacing in the last paragraph is weird. Indeed, the whole email looks like it was put together rather sloppily.
- The link shown to you is for a site on Weebly, a free website builder. No real UVic login page would ever be hosted on a free website builder.
If you hover over any of the links, you’ll actually see a Google redirect URL. Phishers may use a Google redirect or something similar to make the URL look less phishy and hide the real destination.
As always, don’t click on the links! If you did, reach out to the Computer Help Desk or your department’s IT support staff for assistance.
