There is another ‘Notification’ subject phish circulating today. This phish instills a sense of fear “unauthorized login attempts to your email account” so that you would take the bait and click on the link to protect your account. Fear is one of the most common emotion exploited by phishers.
This email has usual phishing signs: external sender (you may have received this email from a different sender than the one in the image below, nevertheless, the sender is external) , generic salutation and signature, fake sense of urgency, and the link is external (not hosted on ‘uvic.ca’).
Never be in a hurry to click on links and take the bait. Always think and look for signs that would make an email illegit. This mind set helps in spotting phishing signs easily.
