Email Phishing

Criminals and hackers are constantly coming up with new schemes designed to compromise computers, trick you into revealing valuable information (personal, financial, etc.), steal passwords, or trick you out of money.

How to protect yourself:

• Don't respond to email, phone calls, or pop-ups asking you for your password. You should never disclose your password to anyone, even if they say they work for Butte College, ITSS, or other campus organizations.
• Don't open files, click links, or call numbers in unsolicited emails
• If you can't verify it is legitimate, ignore or delete it.
• Cryptic or shortened URLs (e.g. Tiny URLs) are particularly risky because you can't easily tell where they are supposed to go.
• Don't give sensitive personal, financial, log-in, business, system or network information to anyone you don't know or who doesn't have a legitimate need for it -- in person, over the phone, via e-mail, IM, text, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Below are just a few examples of real phishing attempts:

Subject: District Retirement

To: All School Personnel

From: National Educational Services

The Federal Government & IRS have made available to you the Tax Sheltered Annuity for Educators, Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue code enables you as a school district employee to keep significant dollars in Federal and/or State Taxes.

This is completely deductible from taxes. This can replace your IRA (Individual Retirement Account). To learn more about this program which you are eligible for, please use the Information
Request below.

Information Request Form

Please note this is only available to school district employees.

Thank you,

National Educational Services

Our mission is to establish trust and a long lasting relationship with our clients. This commitment has served us well throughout the years. We take pride in knowing that our clients keep returning
to us for advice.

If you prefer not to receive this information in the future.

This Email is from Butte College, we will be making some vital E-mail account maintenance to ensure high quality in Internet connectivity in the 2014 fight against spam and improve security, all Mail-hub systems will undergo regularly scheduled