We have received notification from a number of users that they have received an email that appears like the one below. The sender field will contain mail.tcnj.edu and the email address of the user and the email subject will indicate your email address will be blocked. This email contains a link that will attempt to… Continue Reading
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[PHISH] – Your Email
PHISH – Confirm Account
The email below is a phishing email. It contains a link that leads to a malicious page, please do not click any links contained within and delete the email. Continue Reading
Assistant Job Scam
There have been a number of reports of an outside party impersonating a TCNJ professor offering a a job to students. This is a scam. A TCNJ professor will never reach out to any students on their personal email accounts and ask the student to be their assistant. Any unsolicited messages should be scrutinized, especially… Continue Reading
PHISH – Retirement And Pension Meetings for The College of New Jersey Employees
An email was recently sent to a wide number of TCNJ employees in regards to retirement advisory. This is not a provider that TCNJ uses and is unsolicited spam email. As with any email received from an external 3rd party, be extremely careful with any information you provide to them. See below for screenshot of… Continue Reading
It’s Cybersecurity Month 2022!
It’s October, and that means it’s Cybersecurity Month! This year’s theme for Cybersecurity Month is “See Yourself in Cyber.” Seeing yourself in cybersecurity means to look at the things you do every day, both at work, at home and elsewhere, and see where you can do things to better protect yourself and others. Things such… Continue Reading
Text Message Scam – 201-908-6007
A number of people have reported SMS messages from (201) 908-6007 attempting to impersonate President Foster. The message is Hello John Smith. Let me know if you get this text. Kathryn A. Foster. President The College of New Jersey This message is a scam. If you receive this message do not reply. If you did… Continue Reading
PHISH – Subject: tcnj.edu | Work Opportunity for
See below image of email. This is a phishing attempt by an outside source attempting to harvest information from TCNJ users. Do not reply or click any links contained within this email. If you receive any suspicious messages, please report them to phish@tcnj.edu. Continue Reading
Text Message Scam Alert
A number of people have reported receiving a suspicious sms message on their personal cell phone. The message is brief asking for a reply and impersonating another employee at TCNJ. If you receive a message like this do not reply, and report it to the Information Security Office. All suspicious messages should be reported to… Continue Reading
Phish – Available cellphone number?
A number of these similar phishing messages reported lately. Usually from gmail addresses. From: XXXX <jpattonvogt@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 11:50 AM Subject: To: <XXXX> Available cellphone number?– Continue Reading
PHISH – Invoice_US_CMR_LRB_10295419121_2021-12-13.pdf
Recently an email was sent out that contains a malicious PDF. If you receive this email do not click the link embedded in the PDF or download it. Notify phish@tcnj.edu and delete the email. Thank you. Continue Reading