Office of Information Technology
January 24, 2022
Tags Phishing Email (on campus)

Payment inquiry - Your Office Email Has a New Voice Message

Phish Bowl Alerts

Just a reminder that while voicemail messages from Brown's phone system will send you a copy of the WAV file to your email Inbox, they will look like the example at the bottom of this post and not the following phishy email from GVSU.edu.

Phishing email from non-Brown account:

From: Rachel Cross <crossra@mail.gvsu.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 2:57 PM
Subject: Payment inquiry
To: Rachel Cross <crossra@mail.gvsu.edu>

Voice Message From: Rachel Cross
Hello,
Your Office Email Has a New Voice Message From  Rachel, Cross
New Voice Message Details:
Received from: Rachel Cross
Date/Time: 1/24/2022
Duration: 01:59 secs.
VM Transcript: Re: Payment Inquiry.(Urgent)
Click to Listen: |>  Play-Voice-Message

Thank you!

Rachel Cross 

Legitimate voicemail message sent to a Brown account from Cisco (unityconnection@brown.edu):
Legitimate voicemail screenshot