Feature story idea: cyber security at une.
Main point: These scams can be dangerous for students and one must be careful when clicking in email links.
Who’s being affected/targeted: people with une emails, specifically une students.
Who should be interviewed: student’s that have had issues with this, it department, career services.
What’s happening: students are getting numerous vague emails mentioning job openings in the local area. The email asks students to click links to apply/for more information. Some of them ask for personal information. It’s turned into such an issue that career services wanted to make a poster warning people about it and offering advice about dealing with these scams.
When: Over the past few months the scam emails have shifted from fake emails posing as departments on campus like health services saying ‘click here now to save your account’ or something.
Where: Une college campus email accounts are being targeted for these emails.
Why: Why would campus emails be targeted? Are other emails targeted in this way for scams?
