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The email titled “your denison.edu account will be suspended” pretending to be from “Protection Team” is a scam. 

If you are using Denison Apps Mail:

April edition:

Stop That Phish

(https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/resources/stop-phish)

OUCH! is the world’s leading, free security awareness newsletter designed for the common computer user. Published every month and in multiple languages, each edition is carefully researched and developed by the SANS Securing The Human team, SANS instructor subject matter experts and team members of the community. Each issue focuses on and explains a specific topic and actionable steps people can take to protect themselves, their family and their organization.

There are many forms of scam (phishing) emails that try to lure you into clicking a link and providing your Denison account information (BigRedID/username and password) by saying your Denison account will be deleted or deactivated. One specific example is an ongoing campaign over many years that specifically targets Library patrons saying something like:

“Your Library account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically.”

If you receive an email like this, please DO NOT CLICK THE LINK or respond in any way.

To check the legitimacy of any Library-related email, please call the Denison University Library at 740-587-6235. You may also check your Library account by clicking the “Renew Online” button on the Library home page (www.denison.edu/library) and logging in to your account.

If you are using Denison Apps Mail:

Open the message and click the down arrow beside the Reply button and select “Report phishing” in the menu that appears. (Note: if “Report phishing” does not appear as an option and “Report not phishing” appears instead then the message is already flagged as phishing.)

This reports the phishing attack to Google and improves the identification and blocking of future phishing attacks. After you report it, please delete the message.

NOTE: this option is only available in the web (Gmail) interface for Denison Apps. It is not available if you are using Thunderbird, Apple Mail, or another client to access your Denison Apps email.

If you replied to a suspected scam/phishing email in any fashion, please follow all the steps listed in this ITS Help Desk Online FAQ: http://apps.denison.edu/helpdesk/faq3422

Please contact the ITS Help Desk at helpdesk@denison.edu or 740-587-6395 if you have any questions or concerns.

If someone asks you about a suspicious email they received from your email address that you didn’t send, if you get bounce messages for emails that look like they were sent from your account, or if you get a reply to a message you never sent, you may think someone else has gained access to your account. However, it may be that someone is spoofing your email address, making an email appear to come from your address when it really isn’t. Often, Google Inbox or Gmail will designate a suspicious email like this for you with a fishing hook or a banner across the email, but the detection isn’t perfect. If you or the recipient of a spoofed email gets a message like this, marking it as spam will help Google identify the activity in the future.

Remember, you can protect your account from being compromised by enrolling in Duo.