ITS has been alerted to a phishing email sent to our domain from info@colgate.edu with the subject line, “Warning!!!”.
Please, do NOT reply to that email or click the link in the email! This email do not come from Colgate ITS.
Also know that ITS will NEVER ask you for your password. NEVER give out your password.
If you have already replied to this email, or an email like it, or clicked the link, you should immediately change your password at, https://accounts.colgate.edu
For more information about phishing attempts and how to spot them, please check out our page on Best Practices located at:
As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact ITS at x7111 or itshelp@colgate.edu.
Below is a full copy of the phishing email.
This email is being sent to you because of violation security breach that was detected by our servers. Our server detected that one of the messages you received from a contact has already infected your mail with a dangerous virus. You can no longer be allowed to send messages or files to other users to prevent the spread of virus to other mail users. Please follow the link below to perform maintenance work needed to improve the protection of the web-mail for us to verify and have your account cleared against this virus. CLICK HERE WARNING!!! E-MAIL OWNERS who refuses to upgrade his or her account within 48hrs after notification of this update will permanently be deleted from our data base and can also lead to malfunctioning of the client or user's account and we will not be responsible for loosing your account.