Here are a few guidelines:
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1) Don't open email attachments unless you are expecting them and you trust the sender. 2) Don't reply to requests to email your Carleton username or password to anyone. ITS will NEVER ask you for your password via email. 3) Beware of email messages with links to non-Carleton sites, asking you to provide any personal information, including your name, username, password, etc. |
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One thing you can do is to click the "Junk" button in your email program when you receive a spam email message. This will train Zimbra to help keep these messages out of your Inbox. (It's not foolproof, but it helps!)
As an example, here is an email message that was delivered to lots of folks on campus in May, 2011. This message has been annotated with a number of ways to indicate that it was NOT a legitimate message and did not originate from Carleton.
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This page has been moved. See this page in our new Knowledge Base: Practicing Safe Email |