Spear Phishing

Fraudulent Employee Direct Deposit Information Urgent Update Requests

UCLA students report getting scammed for UCLA Football tickets in group chats.

Spear phishing attempt is a carefully crafted personalized email that is usually sent with an attachment or requests a response. The fraudster then tries to entice the recipient to open the infected attachment or respond with personal information.

We have reports from faculty and staff who have been recipients of a new twist on an old e-mail scam. These phishing scams often come from a non-UCLA email address with poor spelling/grammar.

UCLA Information Security Office is aware of UCLA students being targeted by fake job offer scams.

Below is a sample phishing email that was recently sent out. If you receive this, please do not respond to it and do not click on any hyperlinks.

Below is a sample phishing email that was recently sent out. If you receive this, please do not respond to it and do not click on any hyperlinks.
From: help desk <REDACTED>
Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 8:55 AM
To: <REDACTED>
Subject: Service

Your e-mail password expires in 2 days to retain e-mail password and details. CLICK HERE to update immediately.

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