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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Several employees here at Commerce have received emails that look legit but are really targeted “Spear Phishing” attacks. The weakest link to any secure system is a human being. Attackers know this and phishing
has evolved from blast emails that they hope to caught a few to targeted messages to specific individuals. A lot of your information is on the internet (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) Attackers review this before they send out their messages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please know that CITE will never send you an email that requests you click on a link and enter personal information. So</span><span style="color:#1F497D">,</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> if you get an email
requesting you to do so, don’t click</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> on</span><span style="color:#1F497D"> any links. Call the help desk if you have any questions. We can block spam and phishing attacks before they get to your email if we know about them.
You can hover your cursor over a link (don’t click!) to reveal the actual link. In a phishing scam this often will be a URL which you won’t recognize and different from what is visible.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D">Phishing scams are attempts to get you to provide private information about yourself by pretending to be a legitimate company or organization or infect your computer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any doubt at all about the validity of any message, call the Help Desk at 903-468-6000 (off campus) x6000 (on campus).
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D">To learn more about phishing, visit YouTube
</span>“<a href="https://youtu.be/E-L8Rrv6A8w">What is Phishing</a><span style="color:#1F497D">” video created by SecureTheHuman</span><span style="color:#1F497D">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:#1F497D">Below is a recent phishing scam that has been targeted using Texas A&M University name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="835" height="366" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D0C539.295EA2A0" alt="Title: Phishing Attack Example - Description: Phishing Attack Example - Dear Web-Mail User"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">CITE Call Center | Help Desk
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</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">Center for IT Excellence</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> | Texas A&M University-Commerce<b><br>
</b></span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:helpdesk@tamuc.edu"><span style="color:black">helpdesk@tamuc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">P.O. Box 3011 | Commerce, Tx 75429-3011<br>
Tel. 903.468.6000 | Fax 903.886.5007| <a href="http://www.tamuc.edu/CITE">www.tamuc.edu<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">/CITE</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><br>
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<b>Texas A&M University-Commerce</b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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