Phishing Attempt: Attn: Someone has run a background-check on you. View notification #21048535

SUMMARY: Phishing Attempt: Attn: Someone has run a background-check on you. View notification #21048535
POSTED ON: 07/25/2014
REPORTER: ITS Help Desk
START TIME: Jul 25 04:28 PM
END TIME: Aug 26 04:28 PM
DESCRIPTION: A phishing attempt has been reported supposedly from the University of Hawaii. Please do NOT reply to the email or click on the link. Do NOT submit your personal information.

The University of Hawaii will NEVER ask for your UH username and password in an email message.

See: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/898 for reporting a new/suspicious email targeting UH usernames.

Sample message:

From: "Background Rep" <xxxxx@seenewscanxxxxx.us>
Subject: Attn: Someone has run a background-check on you. View notification #21048535
Date: July 25, 2014 6:27:03 AM HST
To: <xxxxx@hawaii.edu>


Attn: Someone has run a background-check on you.
...............................................................
Notification # 21048535
...............................................................

Hello xxxxx@hawaii.edu,

The reason that we're sending you this email-notification today is to let you know that somebody
has recently ran a background-check on you. You can find out more information about the results
of this scan by visiting the link-provided below.


Go here & find-out the results of your-scan: http://xxxxx.xxxxxseenewscanxxxxx.us




Thank you.




*July 25, 2014