From time to time staff and students will receive suspicious emails from apparently reputable sources requesting confidential information regarding financial accounts, loans, email accounts etc., or threatening an imminent lock out of an account.
These emails usually contain a link prompting you to input your personal or financial details. Do not click on this link. These emails are bogus, and no reputable or trustworthy organisation will ask you for information in this way.
If you inadvertently provide your details,you should;
- Immediately change your password. Guidelines for this are at http://go.shu.ac.uk/password
- Immediately contact the real organisation to report spam emails in circulation and that you may have potentially compromised your account.
- Follow this advice for dealing with suspicious emails on the IS&T staff intranet pages.