Bryn Mawr College

Recently, many community members have been receiving spam and/or phishing type emails that appear to be sent from the Information Services staff. These emails may state that your email account is over quota or is slated for removal. The emails are requesting that you reply with your name, password, and some other personal information. Bryn Mawr College will NEVER, EVER ask for this type of information over email.

What happens when your account is comprimised?
When an account is compromised by a phishing email (see our previous post about phishing here), the phisher attempts to send hundreds to thousands of emails just like the one that was sent to the original person. Other email services like AOL, Microsoft, Hotmail, etc. see Bryn Mawr as a spam generating domain and move to block all further emails from Bryn Mawr, legitimate or spam. Users attempting to send to these blocked domains will receive bounce-back messages, and it is difficult to re-open these pathways.

If you believe your account is compromised, or are unsure if a message is spam, please contact the Help Desk at x7440.

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