University of Helsinki
Some of our Moodle users have received phishing emails considering their Moodle account. The purpose of these scam messages is to persuade people into disclosing their user account information and passwords which might be used for security breach. Never give your user name or password to someone else! Remember also not to fill in suspicious electronic forms with your user account information!!!
- The University IT staff will NEVER ask for your user account information via email! Messages prompting you for your user name or password are ALWAYS scams.
- Some of the currently circulating phishing messages contain a link to a page where the user should allegedly check their user information or update it. Often these messages will claim that failure to fill in the requested information will lead to the inactivation of the user’s account. This is not true!
- Check the target address of the link: Hover your cursor over the link (without clicking it!). The address will be shown in the bottom part of the screen. If the address does not seem authentic, the message is most probably a fake.
- If you have any reason to doubt the authenticity of a message, don’t open any links it may contain. Please ask the Helpdesk instead. If you are targeted by phishing messages, please contact the University of Helsinki IT Helpdesk helpdesk@helsinki.fi. Only report attempts to acquire your password!
- The University does NOT send its users links to pages asking for user information or passwords.
- Never let anyone else use your user account or password!
Read more about phishing emails and online security at Helpdesk’s guide page.