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Phishing Scammers Posing as Student Loans Company Target University Students

 

One fresh phishing scam has been found targeting returning pupils and first-year students of different universities in United Kingdom. In that scam, phishing e-mails pose as messages by one student loan company; however, actually take victims onto one fake website for getting away with their personal account details and identities.

 

The scammers, during the last 2 weeks, have been distributing their malevolent e-mails on the eve of another fresh academic year. Inside those e-mails it's asserted that A/Cs stand suspended because information isn't complete; therefore, the recipients must follow given web-links.

 

The phishing electronic mail directs that recipients should provide their latest information via one web-link that subsequently takes onto one fraudulent site where attempts are made for harvesting private data. According to Action Fraud, a confirmation by the Student Loans Company indicates the e-mail isn't real. Manchestereveningnews.co.uk posted this, September 5, 2017.

 

It's now common for fraudsters to target students. Action Fraud reported in 2016 about a warning that e-mails pretending to be from finance departments of universities tell about issuing "educational grants" so as for tricking students in a way that they'd divulge their sensitive information.

 

Earlier also Student Loans Company cautioned students for being watchful of fake e-mails/texts especially close to the dates of main payments of student loans during Sept, Jan and April. Andy Fyfe, Detective Chief Inspector from City of London Police stated that the phishing e-mail in discussion exhibits several tell-tale signs suggesting certain fraud involved, including grammatical as well as spelling errors.

 

Action Fraud posted on its portal asking people not to assume the sender of an e-mail as really the person he claims to be. Suppose any e-mail asks the recipient for paying an amount, he should use an Internet account alternatively, presents one deal then he should exercise caution. Besides, he must keep his anti-spam filter enabled.

 

Any suspicious e-mail should be labeled as spam as well as deleted. When unsure, the e-mail's genuineness must be checked directly from the company. All web-links within dubious e-mails must be avoided, instead the authorized site else customer care number should be accessed from another Web-browser as also search engine.

» SPAMfighter News - 9/13/2017

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