2023/07/06 Beware of suspicious e-mails

Category: Security（セキュリティ）

Dear students, faculty and staff

This is a notice from the Information Systems Division.

　There has been an increase in the number of phishing e-mails sent to you by people trying to defraud you of your account information for commercial Internet services or for the University.
Some of these emails may slip through our email security system and be delivered to you.
Users have reported receiving suspicious e-mails.
If you receive a suspicious e-mail, be careful not to access the URL in the body of the message.
Do not open any attached files.


The sender (From:) is often spoofed and may be the sender's own email address or the administrator's email address (e.g., admin@~).


An example of a subject line: sic.shibaura-it
sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp New Webmail service is now available
mail delivery failure: storage is almost full
ow.shibaura-it.ac.jp mail service update Case ID: ?????
You have [13] pending incoming emails
SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ~ Your 8 unreceived emails are stuck on the sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp Server.
Your ow.shibaura-it.ac.jp Account will be disabled soonest.
Your Outlook storage is full
Verify User
Mail Notice: De-activation
Account Termination
Email Termintaion Request
Undeliverable: Incoming messages failure
Check Password
Email Verification ~ VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT TODAY
～Unknown Login Notification
Password Expiration Notice!
～ Email Notification
Required Action: Email Deactivation Notification for
Required Action: Important Notification for Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Required Action: Important Notification for Monday, June 26, 2023
Required Action: Important Notification for Sunday, June 25, 2023
You have received a new voicemail memo.
Error receiving mail
Notification: Mailbox size has reached quota limit
Sic mailbox size has reached quota limit
Mailbox storage space is low
~ Received Mail Error
Mailbox storage is full, account is suspended


If you receive a suspicious email, please contact SIT-CSIRT.
SIT-CSIRT (Shibaura Institute of Technology Computer Security Incident Response Team)
Email: csirt@shibaura-it.ac.jp

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