[CCoE Notice] Spoofed (faked) emails from UH employee names

[Luong, Kiet A]

Good morning,

We've received several reports of spoofed (faked) emails from individuals perpetrating to be Engineering employees and asking for help.  The hackers are creating non-UH email accounts and using UH employee names (e.g. kietluong at xxx.com<mailto:kietluong at xxx.com>, etc.) and sending mass emails to people on campus, hoping someone will fall for the trick and reply.  This is no different than hackers using UofH at xxx.com<mailto:UofH at xxx.com> or anypopularbusiness at .xxx.com<mailto:anypopularbusiness at .xxx.com>.  Please be alert and only respond to emails coming from UH email addresses in your routine communications.  This is the one important reason why we all need to use our assigned UH email accounts (@central.uh.edu) as the official email account to conduct UH business.  This is also UH policy, which is attached and highlighted.

As always, please report any suspicious emails to myself and/or abuse at uh.edu<mailto:abuse at uh.edu> and thank you for staying alert.

Sincerely,

Kiet Luong
Director of Engineering Computing
College Information Security Officer
Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston
Email: KietL at uh.edu<mailto:KietL at uh.edu>
Voice: 713.743.9974

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