Phishing Scam Sent to son's UD e-mail

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<p>Have your students watch out for a phishing scam e-mail sent to their UD e-mail account. Yesterday my son received, and responded to, an e-mail claiming to be Bank of America. The e-mail said that an unauthorized person tried to gain access to his account and it gave him a link to click on to "verify" his personal information. Well, he fell for it, even though he does not have a Bank of America account, his account is with PNC. </p>

<p>They asked for his bank account #, password, pin, ss#, date of birth, address, phone#, and he gave it all. We spent the entire day yesterday notifying every financial institution he has an account with, as well as UD's financial aid office, and then requesting a fraud alert be placed on his credit report.</p>

<p>I would assume that if they got a hold of my son's UD e-mail, that they gained access to many more, so alert your kids to be on the look out.</p>

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<p>My son got the same thing!</p>

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<p>handemom - I assume your son was “aware” enough to figure out what was going on? My son received quite an education yesterday that didn’t come from the classroom!</p>

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<p>My D got that, too. Scary.</p>

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<p>My D got the same e-mail yesterday. She forwarded it to me and I told her to ignore it because we don’t have any Bank of America accounts. Is there any way to notify the school so that they know this is happening?</p>

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<p>Just checked with my dd, she also received the email yesterday and deleted it.</p>

<p>She also noticed it was sent from a PSU.edu email address!</p>