This phony email is allegedly from a campus department regarding new salary details or a financial bonus.
The message will request you follow a link and enter your CalNet username and password, and often personal cell phone number for your new salary or compensation details.
What makes this a phishing message?
Salary and compensation details are announced in the expected UC Berkeley official channels. The scam uses a the promise of a salary increase of a bonus to lure the recipient into clicking the link and sending credentials.
Tips if Something Seems Off:
If the deal sounds too good to be real, it is not real.
Any salary or compensation adjustment will come from official campus communication channels.
When reviewing compensation or benefit information, CalNet credentials should not be required by any other site except the legitimate UCPath portal.
Follow up with the sender separately
If you didn’t expect it, reject it. Or follow up with the individual directly in a separate email or call/text to confirm.
Report and/or flag it
Open the message
To the right of the 'Reply' arrow select 'More' (typically denoted with three vertical dots)
Then 'Report phishing'
For suspicious messages received by text, please take a screen shot and forward the message to phishing@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail) For more information visit https://security.berkeley.edu/resources/phishing
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