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MarkJFine
Professor
8 years ago

Be Safe this Holiday Season - Avoid Phishing Attempts

Wasn't allowed to kudo this in Annoucements, so consider this a massive one here Liz.

👍🏼

Apparently there have been quite a few people that received that email and were about to respond to it.

If the hughes-net.com email domain doesn't tip you off, the http://rodestedt.se/wordpress/ link to the form should...

  • Thanks, Mark!

     

    Yeah every once in a while these come along (and they're getting better at this!) so we need to send out a gentle reminder to everyone to not fall for this. I'm sure there still will be people who miss the memo or didn't learn from last time, then end up posting here or calling us, wondering if this is legit. :smileytongue:

     

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV

    Mark, 

     

    I don't know if it does, as I'm not going to click on it, but does that wordpress link go to anything bad?   If so....eek.  

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor

      I left most of the link off, so it should be safe. Just goes to the root home page.

      • GabeU's avatar
        GabeU
        Distinguished Professor IV

        MarkJFine wrote:

        I left most of the link off, so it should be safe. Just goes to the root home page.


        That's good.  I didn't know if the hosting site itself could be nefarious, so I was a little worried that someone might click on it.