Just a heads up about a fraudulent message that’s been reported. A screenshot (with the recipient redacted) is below. The red box was added by me to highlight the “This Message is from a Newpaltz trusted source”. This is similar to a criminal putting a sign up saying “Trust me – I’m legit!”. It is text added by the scammers to make their message look authentic. I’m emailing about it because we haven’t seen this tactic before.
Beyond that – the message is a pretty standard phishing scam. An attempt to trick you into clicking a link to access ‘pending messages’ (which is not something New Paltz does or ever will do), which will then ask for your username & password on a seemingly legitimate site.
They have Newpaltz in their From name – but that doesn’t mean anything.
As always – please keep being cautious – and thanks for forwarding these kinds of scams over when you receive them.
