If you have received an email with the subject of “ADP Generated Message: First Notice – Digital Certificate Expiration”, please do not click on the links located within the body of the message . Do not provide your Carleton email and account information and do not reply to the sender.
This is a phishing email and should be deleted immediately. If you have already responded to this email, please change your password immediately.
How can you tell if an email is a phishing attempt?
- the sender is not familiar to you
- there is a call for immediate action – “download this now” or “confirm you email identity now” or “click on the link below”
- there are spelling or grammatical errors in the email
How you can reduce Spam?
- Do not open an email that looks like Spam.
Just delete it. Simply opening the message can send a read receipt message back to the spammer confirming that your e-mail account is active. - Do not reply to a Spam message.
Spammers will regard this as a ‘hit’ and your e-mail account will be confirmed as active. - Do not make your e-mail address available on web pages.
Use an alternate e-mail address when using Usenet newsgroups. Spammers use harvesting software that surfs the Internet to glean e-mail addresses from web sites and newsgroups. An alternate e-mail address will protect your Carleton e-mail address and help reduce the amount of spam received at Carleton. Free e-mail services are readily available from many sources. - Guard your e-mail address carefully.
Do not give your e-mail address to web sites unless you are sure what they are going to do with it. Read any terms of use and privacy statements. Many greeting card and joke-of-the-day websites gather e-mail addresses for spam use. Never subscribe your friends to a web site as you may be giving their address to a spammer.