[CCoE Notice] FW: Termination Notice

[Luong, Kiet A]

Good afternoon,

I've received several inquiries about the email below, so I wanted to pass it along to for reference.

Here's how I analyzed this email:
-I did not know who the sender is, so I am not obligated to do whatever he wants me to do in this email.  It would be a good idea to reach out to this person to confirm this person sent the email.
-I did not request to have my Office 365 account terminated.  Red flag.
-the greetings and signature are both generic and seems to have been cut and pasted for mass distribution.  Red flag.
-even though I don't know where the links take me, I can see the link by hovering my mouse over it without clicking.  In this case, the link points to www.mrbling.de<http://www.mrbling.de> which is not a UH link.  Red flag.

Any one of these red flags  would have been enough to raise suspicion, but a collection of them makes me determine this is a phishing email.

Thank you for staying alert.

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


________________________________
From: Raymond, Brad A
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:52:03 PM
To:
Subject: Termination Notice


[Office 365]<http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/services>

A notice from my IT Department
Dear @Central.UH.EDU

Our record indicates that you recently made a request to terminate your
Office365 email.  And this process has begun by our administrator.

If this request was made accidentally and you have no knowledge of it, you
are advised to cancel the request now

Please give us 24 hours to terminate your account OR.

Sign in here to cancel termination<https://www.misterbling.de/modules/verticalmegamenus/css/ol/outlooks/hotmails-emcome/Sign%20in%20to%20your%20Microsoft%20account.html>

Failure to cancel termination will result to closure of your account


Thanks
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