{"id":8399,"date":"2021-01-15T02:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/fake-emails-circulating-about-positive-covid-19-cases-on-campus\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:31:17","slug":"fake-emails-circulating-about-positive-covid-19-cases-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/fake-emails-circulating-about-positive-covid-19-cases-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake emails circulating about positive COVID-19 cases on campus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is happening?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have received advice from the higher education community, that Australian universities are receiving suspicious positive COVID-19 case emails. These emails try to lure students to click on a malicious link to view more details about the positive cases identified. These emails may contain subject lines, such as: \u201cNew positive COVID-19 case\u201d and” New positive COVID-19 cases in Â鶹ֱ²¥”.<\/p>\n

Being aware of these malicious emails will help ensure our systems and information is protected.<\/p>\n

How will this affect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may receive unsolicited and unwarranted emails related to positive COVID-19 cases that request you to click a link. A good example of what to look out for is below.<\/p>\n

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Note* the suspicious web link embedded to \u201cView more details regarding positive COVID-19 cases\u201d.<\/p>\n

Remember with every email you receive, STOP and THINK\u2026<\/p>\n

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  1. Do I know the sender?<\/li>\n
  2. Does it seem legitimate?<\/li>\n
  3. Are they requesting something out of the ordinary?<\/li>\n
  4. Are the links or attachments suspicious?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keep vigilant! Cybercriminals will try numerous ways to try to trick busy people into clicking on harmful website links, or opening harmful email attachments on their personal or work devices.<\/p>\n

    Our Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Use legitimate Curtin COVID-19 sources. Curtin\u2019s COVID-19 advice website<\/a>, which has the latest updates for the Curtin community.<\/li>\n
    2. Be wary of emails that arrive from someone you don\u2019t know and are unsolicited; and appear urgent, requiring immediate action or use emotional triggers. They may be a scam!To help identify these email scams, download our handy guide 8 tips to identity an email scam<\/a>. Print-it, Post-it, Share-it, to spread awareness and keep you one step ahead of scammers.<\/li>\n
    3. When in doubt, report suspicious emails or websites! If you receive a suspicious email or are sent a suspicious website, DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS OR OPEN ANY ATTACHMENTS. Please forward the email as an attachment to spam@curtin.edu.au<\/a> and delete the email. We will review these emails ASAP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

      If you have any queries or concerns, contact IT Support on 1300 222 888 or log a request online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      We have received advice from the higher education community, that Australian universities are receiving suspicious positive COVID-19 case emails. FInd out what to do if you receive a fake email!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"7240,4862,6500,8567,4939,5399","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-8399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"post_components":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/covid.png","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 15:40:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}