REPEAT WARNING - PHISHING ATTACKS
Today there has yet again been a flood of so-called "phishing" emails to goldsmiths email accounts. IT services warn about this on a regular basis, but it is good to reiterate the message:
"Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to acquire information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by sending an e-mail which pretends to be from a reputable source."
In fact, as a general piece of advice , you should always assume that no genuine source - be it your bank, your college email providers, or other email providers, online store accounts you might actually have and so on - will ever ask you for your password via email. Take that as a dead give away! Any such email should be immediately deleted (do not respond, or even click on any link).For more details read this from the (genuine!) IT services website.
See also this past message forwarded from IT services
You can also watch this short video from the common craft show that explains how phishing works.
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