Catmail Scammers VOSOT Duration: 1:24
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It's criminals trying to get IN, rather than get OUT that has O-U's Office of Information and technology worried.
There's been an increase in email scams getting through to students and faculty in the last week.
Athens MidDay reporter Pat Henderson is live in the newsroom to tell us what to watch out for.
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[CG :Std Lower 3rd\Pat Henderson\Athens MidDay]
That's right Mary, the Office of Information and technology says there have been several phishing attacks on O-U's email system.
The attacks are designed to trick you .. to get you give the scammer your user name and password.
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The scammers then take your information and either sell it or use your email account to send spam messages.
Information Technology Communications Manager Sean O'Malley says these types of attacks are pretty common, but the O-I-T usually catches them before they get to students and faculty.
O'Malley says it's a coincidence that this is happening during the University's transition to catmail.
He says the university never asks for private information...
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[CG :Std Lower 3rd\Sean O'Malley\IT Communications Manager]
<we will never ask you to send us your password, and we will never ask you to open an attachment. So if you get an email that looks like its from one of us and its asking for one of those things.... You can be sure it didn't come from us and you should ignore it or forward it to [email protected]>
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{***LIVE NEWSROOM PAT***} O'Malley asks that anyone who gets one of these messages please notify the Office of Information Technology so they can block the scammer.
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You can report suspicious activity by calling the OIT Security Hotline at 740-566-SAFE or send an email to security-at-ohio-dot-edu.
Reporting live from the newsroom, I'm Pat Henderson.
[Anchor:MARY]
{***MARY**}
[ReadRate:15]
It's criminals trying to get IN, rather than get OUT that has O-U's Office of Information and technology worried.
There's been an increase in email scams getting through to students and faculty in the last week.
Athens MidDay reporter Pat Henderson is live in the newsroom to tell us what to watch out for.
[TAKE: LIVE NEWSROOM]
{***LIVE NEWROOM PAT***}
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[CG :Std Lower 3rd\Pat Henderson\Athens MidDay]
That's right Mary, the Office of Information and technology says there have been several phishing attacks on O-U's email system.
The attacks are designed to trick you .. to get you give the scammer your user name and password.
[TAKE VO
NUMBER: news source #3]
{***VO***}
The scammers then take your information and either sell it or use your email account to send spam messages.
Information Technology Communications Manager Sean O'Malley says these types of attacks are pretty common, but the O-I-T usually catches them before they get to students and faculty.
O'Malley says it's a coincidence that this is happening during the University's transition to catmail.
He says the university never asks for private information...
[TAKE: SOT FULL AT :24
OUTCUE: [email protected]
AT: 5:51
TO: 6:05
DURATION:0:14]
{***SOT FULL***}
[CG :Std Lower 3rd\Sean O'Malley\IT Communications Manager]
<we will never ask you to send us your password, and we will never ask you to open an attachment. So if you get an email that looks like its from one of us and its asking for one of those things.... You can be sure it didn't come from us and you should ignore it or forward it to [email protected]>
[TAKE: LIVE NEWSROOM]
{***LIVE NEWSROOM PAT***} O'Malley asks that anyone who gets one of these messages please notify the Office of Information Technology so they can block the scammer.
[CG :Std Lower 3rd\Hotline: 740-566-SAFE\Email: [email protected]]
You can report suspicious activity by calling the OIT Security Hotline at 740-566-SAFE or send an email to security-at-ohio-dot-edu.
Reporting live from the newsroom, I'm Pat Henderson.
