Phishing Examples

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Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, usually made through email, to steal your personal information. The best way to protect yourself from phishing is to learn how to recognize a phish.
Phishing emails usually appear to come from a well-known organization and ask for your personal information — such as credit card number, social security number, account number or password. Often times phishing attempts appear to come from sites, services and companies with which you do not even have an account.
In order for Internet criminals to successfully "phish" your personal information, they must get you to go from an email to a website. Phishing emails will almost always tell you to click a link that takes you to a site where your personal information is requested. Legitimate organizations would never request this information from you via email.
Here's a small sample of popular phishing emails we've seen over the years. As you can see there are many different approaches cybercriminals will take and they are always evolving.
While it would be virtually impossible to keep a current and fully comprehensive archive of these examples, it's a really good idea to keep updated on what's out there to make phishing attacks less likely.
Password Phishing Scam Messages: This message fraudulently tells you your account is about to expire and tries to get you to click the link to read the message. The sender of 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 verify if your account will soon expire by going to your Lehigh Account web page linked at the bottom of the main Lehigh and Inside Lehigh web pages.
Drop-Box Phishing Scam Messages: Lehigh has been experiencing a number of phishing messages using emails with links to Drop Box documents. If you hover your mouse cursor over the link, it will show the address it is attempting to get you to go to. The messages may appear to be from people you know. If you are not expecting a file, you should immediately be suspicious and use extreme caution. If you have clicked on anything that requires a password you feel is not legitimate, it is always a good idea to reset your Lehigh password at https://www.lehigh.edu/change.

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