[bioundgrd] SPAM/Phishing: "Recover Pending mails"

[Rebecca L Chamberlain]

Hello Biology community,

Perhaps some of you are receiving similar messages to that below.  These messages are suspected spam/phishing.

As long as you do not click on links in suspicious messages and never enter your Kerberos ID and password on any suspicious websites, the only action needed is to report the messages to the security team.

To do so:

Forward the email message as an attachment to phishing at mit.edu<mailto:phishing at mit.edu>.

Rebecca Chamberlain



Begin forwarded message:

From: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <tlxxbrlogcher at mit.edu<mailto:tlxxbrlogcher at mit.edu>>
Subject: Recover Pending mails.
Date: February 20, 2020 at 6:17:16 PM EST
To: <internationaladmin at mit.edu<mailto:internationaladmin at mit.edu>>


Hi internationaladmin,

Due to a server error on your e-mail, (internationaladmin at mit.edu<mailto:internationaladmin at mit.edu>) (5) incoming messages were delayed.

Log on to portal to recover your delayed messages

Recover Delayed Messages

2020 Me‌ss‌ag‌e Ce‌nt‌er


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