Bryn Mawr College

Hello everyone,

We have seen some fairly “believable” scam traffic in the last week or so, and we thought we would remind you of a few items that will help to keep your accounts safe.

• Never send any of your passwords or other personal information via email, or enter your password into a field inside an email message. Bryn Mawr Computing will never ask you to give or send us your password, especially via email.
• Spammers will sometimes include legitimate or legitimate-looking links in an email in order to make the email appear legitimate. This does not guarantee that an email is from IS.
• Messages from Bryn Mawr Information Services, especially about Computing related issues will *always* be signed with one or more person’s name and title. If you receive a message where the name is not familiar, or the message does not conform to this standard feel free to verify with the Help Desk or check the Computing Web site for verification.
• If you attempt to open a message and receive a virus warning (even if the message claims to be from a friend), delete the message as it is a fake. This is especially true if the message claims to be a greeting card or something similar. If you are not sure, contact that friend and ask if they have sent you that type of message.
• Never open an attachment which looks suspicious or which you were not expecting to receive.

Remember that by answering an email scam, you not only risk your identity and email records, but compromised accounts sometimes result in Bryn Mawr being blocked by other carriers for several days as a spamming site

If you have responded to an email asking for your password, please change your password immediately, and change the passwords for any accounts which may use the same password.

If you feel your account has been compromised, or you have reason to believe that your computer may have been infected by an email-borne virus please contact the Help Desk immediately at 610-526-7440.

We always report any spam or virus traffic we can identify to our anti-spam service to help them improve their filtering. If you identify some, please feel free to send it to spam@brynmawr.edu. Please include full headers (if you need assistance with this, the Help Desk can help).

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