<p>Just received an email that looks like it is from OSU about Eminence. Congratulating about acceptance, honors, etc. If you hold the mouse over the links, you will see they do not go to whom it says in the link. Please be careful!!!</p>
<p>Thank you for the warning! I almost clicked those links!</p>
<p>Yes. If you notice it is actually from this email address. ayeza.siddiqi@**********</p>
<p>This is my first post in CC. My son also received this email. There is a real person in admissions department with that name. Also seeing my son’s OSU ID in that email, I guess the mail is real, but that person’s computer has issues. Either that, ( not intending to induce panic ) or someone really hacked into admissions DB. I shot an email immediately to Program manager and Ayeza too. And, thank to mrrmom, now lot of people know now think check before clicking on embedded links</p>
<p>I hope that is the case. I went back and looked at every other email we have received and the emails were OSU email addresses. Never a gmail email address. I’m not sure why someone would send something from OSU using a personal email address. Let us know if you receive a response from your inquiry.</p>
<p>Got the reply back, this time from Program Manager. The email is authentic. The links are redirections to osu sites, seems to be done by ConstantContact - the mass mail distributor. They do it to collect data like who read the emails, who used it etc.
So, the red star given for the thread may be taken out</p>
<p>The red star just indicates to you that you posted in the topic. Any topic you post in will show you a red star. </p>
<p>I’m glad to hear the response. It sure had many things to lead someone to think it was a scam! Especially coming from a gmail email account. Wouldn’t have expected that from OSU.</p>