Body
Date and Time First Identified
Phishing Method
- Email impersonation of Dartmouth person requesting a colleague respond to an urgent request for gift cards.
- Email is attempting to coerce the recipient into quickly rushing out and providing the authorization numbers from a variety of different gift cards.
- The initial emails often appear to be coming from someone that the user knows, but from a non-dartmouth email account like gmail, yahoo or outlook.com.
- The initial email has a short or empty subject with an innocent "Are you around/available" message
- Subsequent messages will indicate the sender is in an important meeting, cannot use the phone and needs gift cards immediately.
- Exact language varies
User Response
- DO NOT RESPOND TO THE SENDER
- DO NOT PURCHASE OR PROVIDE GIFT CARDS
- Delete and empty trash
Sample Un-formatted Email
(no subject)
FROM: Steven Moore <executive_officemail@naver.com>
TO: Cathy.A.Vollmann@dartmouth.edu
DATE: 11/1/2019 8:32:27 PM
Are you busy? There is something I need you to do. Am going into a meeting now so just reply my mail.