Dear all,

We are seeing new, very convincing phishing attacks against University email accounts over the long vacation.

Please be mindful that neither ourselves nor IT Services will ever ask you to confirm/verify/renew/activate/reactivate your account details or mailbox details to continue service.

We have had reports of this one being received widely today:

email phishing attempt 1 august 2018

email phishing attempt 1 august 2018

If you believe you may have fallen for such an email please contact us immediately, either via phone on 01865 270597 (please do leave a voicemail message stating your account/SSO id) or via our service desk ict.desk@some.ox.ac.uk.

For further advice and support on dealing with phishing emails please see: https://help.it.ox.ac.uk/email/phishing/index