Phishing Alert: Your Uniqname informations..

Some U-M community members reported receiving this email. It is fraudulent or malicious. Do not respond, click any link in it, or provide personal information or money. See Phishing & Scams for more tips. If you need help, contact the ITS Service Center.

Date Sent: 
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Phishing Message Summary

This phish immitates U-M IT and tries to convince recipients to enter their credentials in a fake login page by offering an upgrade in email service. The "from" field may be forged to show it comes from a umich.edu address. This fruad can be most easily spotted by looking at the URL it links to. The URL shown in this example is a fraud, the real U-M weblogin address is https://weblogin.umich.edu . The fraudulent URL may be customized to show the recipients' email address.

Phishing Email Text

Hi User,

This notification is prompted to have your account updated to our new mail
server upgrade. Upgrade is to improve our security and new mail
experience.
As an active user, use the link below to access and submit ticket for
upgrade.

                  http:// weblogin - umich - edu [.]cf/ [link removed]

For security reasons, the upgrade portal link will expire within 20 days.

Notice:  To esure your receive future email as maintenance/update
notification, make sure your account is updated.

Thanks
IT Support System

Phishing Email or Site Screenshot: 
A fake login page with imitation U-M branding is presented by the link. The URL of the fake is not the real U-M weblogin URL.