Convincing Spam Email Hitting Users
Dear All,
Please be aware that we have had reports of e-mails being received by our users asking them to click a link to reactivate off-campus access to electronic resources. Please do NOT respond to this e-mail or click the link. The e-mail is spam and did not originate from the Trent University Library Department. Delete this e-mail immediately.
We have taken steps to have this site removed.
A sample of the spam e-mail is shown below:
From: Access Services Assistant
Subject: OFF-Campus Access
Dear User,
Your off-campus access to electronic resources is expiring soon, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once!
To reactivate your account, simply visit the following page and login with your university account. After logging in, your account is reactivated and it will redirect you to the library resources
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