Phishing is when an attacker attempts to fool you into clicking on a malicious link or opening an attachment in an email. Be suspicious of any email or online message that creates a sense of urgency, has bad spelling or addresses you as “Dear Customer.”
In an effort to prevent email scams from reaching the University’s central email server Northwestern’s Email Defense System (EDS), powered by Proofpoint, blocks the majority of malicious messages from being distributed to the University community. However, malicious and junk email occasionally slips through this security net.
As part of the University’s continued commitment to providing a secure computing environment to the University community, Northwestern IT provides a list of reported Scam Email Attempts recently targeting Northwestern:
If you believe you have received a scam email, forward the message to security@u.northwestern.edu with the message headers