{"id":6105,"date":"2014-01-13T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2014-01-22T18:36:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T23:36:35","slug":"the-phishing-scammers-are-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/2014\/01\/13\/the-phishing-scammers-are-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The phishing scammers are at it again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As described last week in a BU Today article<\/a>, members of the BU community were recently victims of phishing; and IS&T has again received several reports of a phishing message being received by members of our community like the one below. <\/b><\/p>\n

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We believe the scammers are trying to use the fact that they were successful last time to continue and extend their crime.\u00a0The message to watch out for claims to be from BU Security and talks about protecting you from the evils of phishing. You can tell the message is a fake because it claims to be from BU, and even uses the BU logo, but it is pointing you to a link that is not a bu.edu link.<\/p>\n

A real BU link will always have \u201c .<\/span><\/span>bu.edu\/ \u201d in i<\/span>t<\/span>.<\/b> There is<\/span><\/span> always a dot <\/span>b<\/span>efore bu<\/span><\/span> and a slash a<\/span>f<\/span>ter edu<\/span><\/span>, as shown b<\/span>el<\/span>o<\/span>w.<\/p>\n