Georgia Tech Cyber Security

Georgia Tech Cyber Security - Phish Bowl

The Phish Bowl is a list of recent email messages that were reported to GT Cyber Security and confirmed to be a widespread phishing message (or was errantly reported as a phishing message and is actually a legitimate email).

If you have received any of the messages listed below as a confirmed phishing email, do not follow the link(s) in the message; simply delete it. If you have already fallen for one of the messages listed below, please contact your department's CSR or, if you are a student, the OIT TSC.

2018-03-08

Phishing Message

Description:

A phisher going by the name of "Gregory Bloomfield" has contacted several graduate students posing as someone looking for a tutor. While the exact process of the scam is not known, it may be a twist on the classic check overpayment scam (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2004/12/ftc-warns-consumers-about-check-overpayment-scams). Please forward any messages you receive to phishing@gatech.edu. If you have fallen victim to this scam, please contact the Georgia Tech Police Department.

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Permalink: https://stats.security.gatech.edu/phishbowl/?notice=114

Notes:

The emails listed on this site are only those that are reported to GT Cyber Security as phishing. You may likely receive phishing email messages that are not listed here; you should learn to identify phish emails and how to report them to GT Cyber Security (see links above).
You may recieve a phishing message whose text matches an example listed here, but has a different web link (that is a different phishing URL). Phishers will sometimes send out the same message to different email addresses, varying the url between a set of different phishing URLs.

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