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Boston University will ever ask you for your password in e-mail! Don't become a victim of identity theft. A wide variety of recent messages claim that BU will delete your account unless you respond and supply your password. These dangerous phishing scams are attempts to steal your identity. Responding to such scams gives away access to your account and personal information. If you receive suspicious e-mail asking you to reply or go to a website to provide information about your BU, Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, Chase Bank, or other account, don't do it! |
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Identity theft scams, viruses, and spyware
Maintain a healthy degree of skepticism. Besides identity theft scams, you may receive attachments infected with viruses or spyware. Messages may falsely claim to be from a bank, a company, or BU. Avoid opening any attachments you were not expecting or from people you don't know. Don't respond to requests for your password or other confidential information. Make sure you install and keep up to date both an anti-virus package and an anti-spyware package. McAfee VirusScan version 8.7i is free to the BU community.
08-Jun-2009: Anti-spam measure added to Horde. In an effort to help prevent programmatic use of Horde to send spam, Horde may prompt you for a Captcha request during message composition. Horde will not require you to fill in a Captcha for every message sent. For more information on Captcha, please click here.
An example of a Captcha requestor is shown below:
