Phish Bowl
A collection of scam emails and other suspicious communications.
This bill notification, supposedly from Norton 360, provides a good opportunity to hone your detective skills by identifying "what's wrong with this picture?" If this email had arrived in your Inbox, what would tip yo
University Human Resources (UHR) warns the Brown community that emails supposedly from Verily, a third-party COVID-19 testing vendor, have been reported.
From: Lalit K. Beura BVSc, PhD <jcheer8140@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:06 PM
Subject: Urgent,
From: 16 October 19:38:16 <info@arcbazar.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:38 PM
Subject: Test Subject
From: Murphy, Ann <Ann.Murphy@waycrosse.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 3:37 PM
Subject: Acknowledgement letter
From: Professor. David Weil <David.Weil@brown.edu>
Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 9:23 PM
Subject: ******Help Research Across Disciplines******
From: adrianscrub80@gmail.com
Date: October 6, 2020 at 1:16:13 PM EDT
To: josiah_carberry@brown.edu
From: Jeanne Hebert <excdrrector4@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 8:57 AM
Subject: Task
From: IT_Support <IThelpdesk@brown.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 8:11 AM
Subject: Help Desk - Advisory - Microsoft 365 Services Migration
To:
From: Michael Burdick <MB336@live.delhi.edu>
Date: October 1, 2020 at 7:55:22 PM EDT
If you receive a suspicious email (and possibly a text message as well), like the following example from cirklepay.com masquerading as Amazon, let us know at phishbowl@brown.edu
From: Patty Hillow <info@hillowpatty.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Your Application Approval
From: Professor. David Weil <David.Weil@brown.edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 09:47
Subject: ******Across Disciplines******
From: Mail-Server <support@commentsold.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 1:19 PM
Subject: Email Update
From: Professor. David Weil <David.Weil@brown.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 2:07 PM
Subject: ******Research Reaching across Disciplines******
From: Christina Hull Paxson <rtrometony55@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 9:22 AM
Subject: Quick Response
From: Kimberly Eck, MPH, PhD <director@nasauoanre.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:45 AM
Subject: NORDP COVID-19 REQUEST
From: Chair Department <chair.department0100@my.com>
Date: September 2, 2020 at 8:02:00 AM EDT
The following email is an example of a legitimate Zoom notification that a guest in waiting in your personal meeting room, though because you may not recognize the name, nor have a meeting scheduled until the next day
Harrick Plasma is currently experiencing a massive influx of virus-carrying emails that may also extend to their contacts at Brown University.
From: Walker, Michelle <mwalker6@capital.edu>
Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:22 PM
From: Alecia Renn <info@rennalecia.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:25 PM
Subject: RE: Bank of America ($1,000 credit)
From: brown.edu <noreply@brown.edu>
Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 7:39 AM
Subject: Notice : 8/25/2020 11:39:48 a.m.
From: Alexander Fleischmann <stevencharlespol@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 9:00 AM
Subject: Urgent,
From: UHR-Talent Development <talentdevelopment@brown.edu>
Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 8:44 AM
From: <no-reply@kotozte.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:51 PM
Subject: New statement 8/17/2020 17:51
From: Sheila Quigley <quigleysheila307@gmail.com>
Date: August 12, 2020 at 11:04:46 AM EDT
Beware of tutor and personal assistant requests like these, which can be the start of a social engineering scam leading to lost dollars rather than satisying employment.
Community members continue to receive "Brown Events" emails from the non-Brown address "associatedstudentsevents@gmail.com", directing recipients to an IRL.com s
From: "notifications@cs.brown.edu" <ikeno-a@ac.wakwak.com>
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If you received one and do not see it here, please forward it to PhishBowl@brown.edu (after stripping off any attachments) so that the phishing email can be added to the page.