Criminals seem to be working overtime in their efforts to steal eID passwords, which is no surprise since their efforts are paying dividends: Since July 18, 77 K-Staters have been tricked into giving away their eID passwords via phishing scam e-mails! The count since January 1, 2010, is 255 K-Staters!
When stolen e-mail accounts are used to send massive amounts of spam to recipients all over the world, other e-mail service providers view K-State as a source of spam and start blocking ALL e-mail from K-State by putting us on their “spam block-list.” Continue reading “Phishing scams + stolen passwords = problems for everyone”
