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
Security Notices
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
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