Examples of phishing messages

Warning about active phishing against Tampere University users

Tampere University has been a target of active phishing. Some of the phishing messages have been sent from external addresses and some from compromised TUNI accounts. Probably the phishing will go on and you may receive new phishing messages. Phishing messages are often sent at end of office hours, in the evening or during weekend when administrators are not at work.

• TUNI IT Services never sends messages like this to their users, especially messages with links to external addresses. Please delete these phishing messages and do not click links in the messages.
• Usually phishing is used to gain control of user email accounts and to send phishing messages and junk email. TUNI IT Services has received a lot of reports about the phishing messages from our users.
• If you receive a phishing message, please report it to IT Helpdesk
• If you have already clicked link to the phishing site and if you have written your account information to the web page, please change your password immediately.
  https://id.tuni.fi/
• Also report the incident to it-helpdesk [at] tuni.fi
• If you have not clicked links in any of the phishing messages, your account is not compromised. However, if you want you can change your password following instructions above.
   

EXAMPLES of scam messages and phishing:

• text messages: from post office, DHL, Tax, Bank, Kela, Housing company, Land Lord
• social media and WhatsApp messages: recruitment, a close relative in trouble, investment tips, Friends with telefon or address requests or video links
• e-mail messages: Boss and CEO scam, salary scam, online store letters
• Google search and QR code scams: search engine and QR-code scam sites 

Read more about Scam and Phishing  and see examples of fishing messages