A number of TCNJ users were sent this unsolicited email from an outside source. TCNJ does not use this service or know its legitimacy as a service. We recommend you do not communicate with the sender or click any links contained within the email. Continue Reading
Announcements Archive
[PHISH] – Your Email @tcnj.edu will be blocked
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
Phish – Subject: TCNJ
New phish with a link to a weebly site that tries to look like a TCNJ login page. Please delete. From: Support TCNJ <pr_2@prometey.org.ua> Date: Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 5:16 PM Subject: TCNJ To: Due to a recent Phishing email that has been going around the TCNJ most Student/Staff Service accounts have been compromised.… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Cell Number Phish from icloud.com emails
We have received reports where a number of icloud.com email addresses are sending in emails impersonating TCNJ employees and requesting user cell phone numbers. The email from address contains the employees name but the email address contains a misspelled or imitated office title and ends in @icloud.com. The attackers are also including an official looking… Continue Reading
[PHISH] Invoice XXXXXXXXX from PPal Sales
We have received notification of a possible PayPal invoice phishing scam being sent to users. The email address appears to be quickbooks@notification.intuit.com but investigation indicates replies will be sent elsewhere. Screenshots are below. Do not interact with the sender by replying or clicking any links within the email. If you receive any invoices you were… Continue Reading
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
IT SECURITY ALERTs Phish
Below is an image of an email sent by a Tony Burr. Even though this came from a Google Drive sharing address, this is instead a phishing email impersonating a TCNJ employee. These often contain a mismatched sender to the person stated as the file sharer. You can also see the sender address is not… Continue Reading
Payroll Self-Service Phish
The following message is a phish. Please ignore and delete it. The links is to a malicious wordpress site From: Technology Department <tsmith@humbleisd.net> Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 7:59 AM Subject: Employee Payroll Self-Service Update To: XXXX Employee Payroll Self-Service Update Dear Employee, Our Payroll Department is in the process of updating and upgrading… 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 – Subject: Available?
Phish reported that attempts to look like it is from a few different TCNJ people. Please ignore and delete the message I’m so tied up in an impromptu meeting right now, I would have preferred to call you but phone is not allowed during the meeting and I need you to run an urgent task… 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
Phish – JOB OPENING @TCNJ
Scam from a compromised account. Please ignore and delete the message Subject: JOB OPENING @TCNJ To: Our affiliate needs an administrative assistant. It is a part time job and quite flexible, the person is needed to perform various tasks like research, logistics, making or receiving payment, keeping records and processing paperwork when necessary. Please find… Continue Reading
Phish – Subject: Kindly send me your available cell number
Phishing for for phone numbers pretending to be the provost. Please delete and do not reply From: Jeffrey M Osborn <leamorkehanov@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 8:00 PM Subject: Kindly send me your available cell number To: <XXXX@tcnj.edu> — Jeffrey M. Osborn Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 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
Phish – Subject: Document shared with you: “General Evaluation.docx”
Another google share phish reported. 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 – Subject: Re: Mandatory
Another phish reported. Links to a weebly site imitating a O365 login page. From: DEBORAH CARR-SANCHEZ <DEBORAH.CARR@donnaisd.net> To: Microsoft Viva <viva-noreply@microsoft.com> Subject: Re: Mandatory Date: 2022-04-11 12:05PM Mandatory notice. You are requested to verify your email to migrate to the latest upgraded service 2022 to avoid deactivation of your email in the next 24-hours. To… Continue Reading
Phish/Scam – Job Opening
There have been a few different reports of similar student job opening scams over the past few weeks. Please mark these messages as spam or phishing and do not reply to the attackers. From: CAMPUS JOBS <joseburgos8290@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 07:23:32 +0100 Subject: Job Opening To: undisclosed-recipients:; The service of a student administrative… Continue Reading
Phish – reached the storage limit
New phish reported – Links to a wixsite.com website trying to steal credentials. Dear user, You have reached the storage limit for your emails and you cannot receive new messages until you increase your storage limit. Click here to increase your office365 Thank you Administrative team 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
PHISH – MsDocs 893826 / New Scanned Docs from MX-M253N
This is a phishing email, the embedded link does not go to a SharePoint site or contain any documents. Do not click on any links and delete this email. Thank you. Continue Reading
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2021
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The theme, just like last year, is “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart” which emphasizes the important role we all must play in protecting ourselves and the College from cyber attacks. It is our shared responsibility to be good digital citizens. No individual is solely responsible for securing the Internet. Everyone must… Continue Reading