To all SCS Faculty and Staff,
A personally targeted phishing scam was recently
sent to SCS faculty. The reply address was invoicing@scs.uiuc.edu.
There was an attachment that they hoped the end user would click on.
Fortunately, our faculty member thought it was suspicious and asked before
clicking on the attachment. See the email below.
A few things to remember*:
- Public advisories for the
University of Illinois are posted on and can be validated from the
Technology Services Security page: https://security.illinois.edu
- Sometimes popular phishing
attacks and hoaxes can be verified on Snopes.
- Legitimate email will
never ask you to disclose your password or other sensitive information
- If in doubt do not
click any enclosed link, but instead call or independently go to the
official website of the purported sender's company so that you can check
the authenticity of the email or submit a compliant.
- Always report suspected
phishing by forwarding the email with headers in question to report-spam@illinois.edu
Chuck Wallbaum
Director, Computer Services
School of Chemical Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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