UF issues warning about e-mail scam

November 1, 2005

A new e-mail scam targets University of Florida faculty, staff and students, according to the IT Security Team of UF's Office of Information Technology's Network Services.

The e-mail appears to be from the Campus USA Credit Union. It references a problem with your account due to an unauthorized ATM transfer. The e-mail lures you to a Web site to correct the account problem, but the link in the e-mail takes you to a malicious Web site intended to steal your Campus USA Credit Union account and password. If you received one of these e-mails, do not follow the link. Please forward the e-mail showing full headers to abuse@ufl.edu.

For more information and an example of the e-mail, visit the team's Web site at http://infosec.ufl.edu/scam/.