Recent Phishing Examples

This message is a clever attempt to obtain your credentials through claiming your email has exceeded it's sending and receiving limits on the Campus Portal. Notice the tell-tale signs of phishing highlighted in the example. Message claims to be from Lehigh Webmail, but address is Admissions (both false). If you hover over the link, you will see it attempts to take you to a domain shreenandinternational.com, not an actual Lehigh web site. Do NOT click on the link!

This message tries to get you to click on a link by claiming that you have received a fax message online. Some of the links on the page are copies of legitimate links, but the trap is a very deceptive link. On the surface, the link text says "http://www.efax.com/fax/fax_view.aspx?fax_id=7132159010", which looks like a reasonable link.

This message fraudulently tells you that your email quota has been exceeded. The message is not from Lehigh and the link takes you to a non-Lehigh site which may have malicious software. Delete this message. NOTE: you can hover over links to see that it does not go to a real lehigh domain. You can also check your (legacy, not Gmail) mail quota by going to your Lehigh Account web page linked at the bottom of the main Lehigh and Inside Lehigh web pages.

This message falsely indicates a security update requires your action to complete, and that if not responded to within 24 hours, you may lose your email. This message is a fraud, by examining the destinations of the link in the message you will notice they go to some other domain, 'webs.com'. Delete this message; do not click on any of the links or attempt to reply.

This is a calendar event that appeared on a staff member's Lehigh Google Calendar, and a variation on the theme of email phishing. Delete calender events that may appear in your calendar.

This message indicates that you are using more space for web mail than you have been allocated. It threatens that unless a link is clicked to upgrade the account, the account holder will be unable to receive email. Notice that the message is signed "Admin Help Desk" (no such thing), refers to "email labs" (again, no such thing), and that the link points to someplace that is not lehigh.edu. Clicking the link can result in having your account credentials compromised. This email should be regarded as SPAM and deleted.

This message pretends to be an email message sent by a multifunction printer/scanner/fax machine as the result of scanning a document. The message claims that the document is a PDF, but the attachment is actually a ZIP archive (note the extension at the end of the file name). The key principle here is that any message you weren't expecting should be regarded as suspect--if you didn't just scan a document, why would you be receiving this? If you aren't sure, don't click on any links or open any attachments.

This message is a version of the same scam we have seen before. The screenshot shows that, depending upon your mail client, and whether it blocks images, the message can look slightly different. Note that the link, which purports to go to http:/www.lehigh.edu/ltsNews (this URL does not exist and is not even correctly-formed, as the slash following the colon should be two slashes) actually goes to http://www.123contactform.com/form-580146/Lehigh.

This email appears to come from Amazon, but note the email address is not amazon.com, but rather amazon.org. The links all point to code on the myataworld.com domain. This email should be regarded as a phishing attack with intent to infect your computer and obtain data. Do not click any links and delete it immediately.

This email tricks you into thinking there is a problem with your mailbox and quota and encourages you to click the link to fix it. Do not click on the link. Note also the improperly sized Lehigh graphic. This email should be regarded as SPAM and deleted.

This is the fake portal login page that the fake "Account Update" alert message links to. It looks almost perfect. But notice the address, "chriscomport.com". This page is not real and you should not enter any information whatsoever into this page.

This email purports to be a notification from LTS about upgrades to the Lehigh web-mail servers. As a security precaution, Library and Technology Services no longer sends emails with links in them. If you get an email claiming to be from us, and directing you to follow a link, you may safely assume it is fraudulent, and should delete it immediately.

This web form is attempting to look like a Lehigh secure web page. Note that the web address (URL) is not in the lehigh.edu domain.

This clever phishing example looks like it is from Lehigh LTS - note that if you hover over the link, it is not the lehigh.edu domain. NOTE: LTS will not send links in email, and we will not ask for your password!

Many at Lehigh are using LinkedIn for professional networking. This example looks very much like the email messages received daily from LinkedIn.

Clicking on the links in this fake Amazon Order Confirmation will take you to a compromised site that will infect your computer.