This phish uses scary tactic to get the user to take action to click on the link. The sender email address is external to UVic, the subject of the email is very generic, mention of “College Email account”: mistakes like these indicate the same phish could have been used for other institutes, it has formatting errors, and signature are also very generic. All these are phishing signs.
Always think and look for red flags in an email before taking an action. Whenever in doubt contact helpdesk.
Subject: UPDATE
Sender: JARUNEE KONGSAWAT <****psu.ac.th>Notice: This message was sent from outside the University of Victoria email system. Please be cautious with links and sensitive information.
Dear Student,
Your College Email account will be Deactivated shortly.
To stop Deactivation, CLICK HERE[Phishing link] and log inThank you,
IT Helpdesk