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A Gift from Illinois Academic Community

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Email purporting to be offering a gift card in appreciation for participation in the Illinois Academic Community

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

Provide me with your personal text number

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

(42) New vMsg for Brownjr

Posted on June 12, 2020 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Phishing email purporting to be a secure messag notification

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

DHL On Demand Delivery

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Allison Payne (Gies)

Image of fake DHL delivery notice including a photo of a package

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

Are you available?

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

Image of an email purportedly from a university staff member.

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

Urgent

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

Image of phishing attempt "I have an assignment I need you to do for me."

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

Payroll Schedule

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

mage of email purporting to be a payroll-related message from the University of Illinois System.

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

IL Principal Trying to Improve K-12 Education

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

While this may be a legitimate request, the spammy character of his distribution method leads us to distrust this message if you received it. We recommend you delete without opening any attachments or clicking any links.

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re: mailbox service portal

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

re: Confirm Payment Receipt

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Chris Tidrick, Senior Director, IT Partners @ Gies

Posted in Confirmed Phishing Attempts

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This site includes alerts about confirmed phishing attempts reported by University of Illinois faculty and staff. If you’ve received one of these attempts, please delete the message. (What is phishing?)

New alerts will be posted as soon as possible, but this site may not include all phishing attempts. Always be suspicious of email you don’t expect from senders you don’t recognize.

If you believe you may have fallen victim to the attempt, please report it to Campus Security at security@illinois.edu, your IT support team, and your unit’s security liaison. If you need assistance checking the legitimacy of an email, please contact your IT support team. You can also forward any unsolicited email messages as attachments to report-spam@illinois.edu.

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