Personal information scams ("phishing") are
currently the most popular and thus dangerous form of email fraud. They use email
messages that appear to come from a legitimate company such as CitiBank, Best Buy,
eBay, PayPal, or your banking institution; sometimes they will even appear to have
come from W&L (e.g., @wlu.edu). They will ask you to go to a web page to "update"
or "verify" your information. Sometimes these messages will inform you that your
account will be deleted if you do not do this, or they claim that you placed an
order or made a charge to your account. By going to the links provided or filling
out the form in these email messages, you provide the fraudulent party with your
personal and financial information. Whenever you are asked to provide personal or
financial information through email or a web form, verify that the source is real
by going separately to that organization's web page (do not use the link provided
in the email message) and forward a copy of the email message you received to the
contact email address you find on the company's web page. Ask the company to verify
that the information in the message is legitimate.
Washington and Lee University has chosen DigiTar Sentinel Secure Messaging
Services to protect our e-mail from spam, worms, viruses and
other dangerous content. DigiTar Sentinel identifies e-mail that is
unsolicited and unwanted and moves it to a "quarantine" area.
Quarantined messages are automatically and permanently deleted after fifteen days.
This process is highly accurate (over 98%) but, sense spam and virus filter
will not catch every malicious email, appropriate caution must be take when
handling unsolicited email.
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