Seminary Computing Services

This scam keeps it short, giving you less time to think about how strange the whole thing is. Happily, in addition to asking you to send in your password via email (which neither SCS nor ECS will ever do), the senders make some clear errors:

I assume this scam hopes to break down your common sense by overwhelming you with official-looking words and threats. I'm not sure what either "Ref." or "Notice." are intended to be short for, Email Services Email" as a product name just doesn't make sense, and I don't know anyone who has an IRTC (Internet RayTracing Competition) email address. What I do know is that

Another variation on an Earlham-targeted scam; this one even tries to abuse the name of the real Silpakorn University. Comments are in bold.

Another email scam - comments are in bold.

This scam is amusingly audacious, in that it tries to dupe you in the name of protecting you from scams! Comments are in bold.

Here's the latest phishing scam directed at Earlham email users - my comments are in bold:

Another example of an attempt to scam Earlham and seminary folks into giving away their passwords - our comments are in bold.

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Neither Seminary Computing Services nor Earlham Computing Services will ever ask you to send your password via email.If you have sent your password in response to a message claiming to be from us (see some samples), then you should assume that you have been "phished", and you need to begin taking steps to protect not only your email and Moodle accounts, but also your electronic identity.