Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Emails asking for your logon, pasword or other ID info

Just a reminder that the school will never email you to verify your login info such as username and password. Such types of emails are called phishing. Phishing emails ask you to provide personal info mostly to access your  financial asset and tools (bank account, credit cards, investments...). If you receive an email asking for private info, even if it looks official, do not reply. Use your common sense. If there is a chance that the email is authentic and you actually have an account with this particular company, contact them by phone, using the number you are familiar with, not the one showing in the suspicious email.  "Welcome to the Jungle..."
                                                                                                                                              Jude

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