With so many retrospectives on 2025 being published, this seems like the time to look back on the increased number of phishing attacks or money scams targeting the campus this past year. We had so many more scams in 2025 than I’ve ever seen in my 25 years at Augsburg. Here’s some reminders of scams I remember.<\/span> With all of these scams, there are several red flags to look for. Keep in mind that no single red flag is definite that something is a scam. But if the flags are adding up that should increase your suspicion. Some examples are<\/span> With all of these red flags, there are ways for scammers to seem legitimate.<\/span><\/p>\n Keep in mind that if we detect or if Google detects that your account has been compromised from a phish we will disable your account as quickly as we can to prevent more phishing or scam emails. What you’ll experience is that you are suddenly signed out of your account and your password doesn’t work. You’ll need to contact us (<\/span>Tech Desk<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>LFCs<\/span><\/a>) to regain access to your account. We will verify your identity before unlocking the account.<\/span><\/p>\n The most general advice I can give you is slow down, read something more than once, and let it sit before acting.\u00a0 Trust your gut – if something smells phishy it likely is a scam or phish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many Email Scams in 2025 With so many retrospectives on 2025 being published, this seems like the time to look back on the increased number of phishing attacks or money scams targeting the campus this past year. We had so many more scams in 2025 than I’ve ever seen in my 25 years at Augsburg. … Continue reading “Happy 2026! A look back at phishing and scams in 2025”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Red Flags<\/h3>\n
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What should I do if I get scammed?<\/h3>\n
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Disabled Accounts<\/h3>\n
General Advice<\/h3>\n