Phishing
Resources
- Phishing scam alert email template:
- Phishing scam flier
(PDF 40 KB) - Phishing FAQ
Help
Questions about phishing? Contact the IT Express Computing Services Help Desk at 530-754-HELP (4357).
Don’t be lured in—help the campus fight phishing
This anti-phishing ad is posted on Unitrans buses for 2008-09Information and Educational Technology (IET) has created this page to present resources and information about its anti-phishing efforts.
The resources section includes:
--a downloadable flier that people can post at their campus workplaces to help faculty, staff and students know how to spot and respond to a phishing email message.
--an email message template that campus technologists can use to alert their departmental colleagues about individual phishing scams.
--a phishing FAQ.
The links below lead to campus articles about phishing—why it’s happening, the problems it is causing email users at UC Davis, and what IET is doing in response.
Notices sent to campus
- Jan. 8, 2009 letter from Pete Siegel alerting campus to phishing scam aimed at UC Davis (01/08/09)
- Jan. 6, 2009 letter to technotices on the phishing email disruptions at start of winter 2009 quarter (01/06/09)
- April 7, 2008 letter from Pete Siegel alerting campus to phishing scam aimed at UC Davis (04/07/08)
TechNews articles about phishing
- Phishing disrupts email; IET fights back (01/06/09)
- To deter phishing, 'there's one thing all of you can do, that we can't' (12/10/08)
- New security notice can help you spot phishing scams (09/26/08)
- Stay alert for newest phishing scam (09/26/08)
- Latest 'UC Davis' phishing hoax plays off earlier scams (08/04/08)
- Another phishing scam targets UC Davis accounts (07/22/08)
- Campus blocks address linked to 'UC Davis Customer Care' email scam (07/02/08)
- New Phishing Scam Targeting UC Davis (05/15/08)
- New 'How Email World Works' list has phisher-foiling advice (04/18/08)
- New 'my@ucdavis.edu' phishing scam targets UC Davis email accounts (04/07/08)
Security notice on standard log-in pages
The campus, prompted by the seven or eight phishing scams that have peppered UC Davis email users since spring 2008, has added a new security notice (see below) to the CAS and Distauth log-in pages to help raise awareness about phishing attacks.
IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTIFICATION
Your campus computing account Login ID and Password should only be used when you authenticate to campus Web sites and online services.
UC Davis will never ask you to confirm or verify your computing account by providing your password via telephone or email. Requests that ask you to reply to an email or visit a non-campus affiliated Web site to confirm or verify your account by providing your password are called phishing scams. DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE REQUESTS even if they appear to come from an email address ending with "ucdavis.edu".
If you think you have provided your password or other personal information in response to a phishing scam, contact the IT Express Computing Services Help Desk immediately at 530-754-HELP (4357).