Try academics with multiple PHD’s and still manage to click on them and when reading the email the use of English language is so bad the academic should be shot for falling for the phishing.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss Sent: Monday, 8 May 2017 1:34 PM To: 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> Subject: Re: heads up, pfishing scam targeting gmail and GoogleDocs We get a lot of those crazy e-mail’s in our e-mail’s at work, and what’s so strange, is I work for the city, so you’d think that someone who works for the city would have the sense not to open one of those, but no luck. I got one looking like it was from someone I’d never even met in our building in the form of a reply message, telling me “do not delete any of your e-mail’s,” and something about me having used such and such amount of my mailbox, and to validate my mailbox click the following link, and was actually signed “your system administrator,” which was probably what caused whoever clicked it before to click it, and apparently it spread to everybody else on the network, sense I asked a co-worker about it, and she told me it was a virus that would spread to everybody’s addressbook if you clicked the link, and something told me not to click the link, especially sense it didn’t have my name on it. On May 5, 2017, at 6:50 AM, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Donna, Yeah there is somewhere in the phishing scam a file that runs and picks up your contacts list from yor account, It has some tye up in to google docks I believe. Crazy thing is that an off shoot of this has taken our work place enterprise email system down a couple of times ove rthe past 2 days due to people clicking the link in the email. Only 4 out of 5 plus thousand isn’t bad but still makes a mess to then have to clean up. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent: Friday, 5 May 2017 2:08 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: heads up, pfishing scam targeting gmail and GoogleDocs Yes, and it looks like the email is coming from the sender. In my case, the email came from a colleague, so appeared quite credible. Cheers, Donna On May 4, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Sharon Hooley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do they give the sender’s name, as in, “Sharon Hooley has shared a document with you”? If not, that’s definitely a tell-tale sign. Thanks for the warning. On May 4, 2017, at 6:44 AM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to pass this along, since I know there are many gmail users on list. I actually got one of these yesterday - it's for real. Cheers, Donna A new malware threat has been spreading rapidly over the past 24 hours with several instances of the threat reported to CSIT staff. This particular threat is a sophisticated phishing scam leveraging Gmail contacts to replicate itself. The threat presents itself as an email message notifying the recipient that a Google Docs document has been shared with them. The message appears to come from a contact known to the recipient and includes a link to the shared document. If message recipient clicks on the link, they are taken to a web page disquised as the Google logon page where any credential they enter are collected. 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