Last April, we advocated pranking employees as a means of teaching IT security. The idea is simple: send a spoof email, based on the attacks hackers use, but instead of sending a virus, you attach a warning telling your employees not to be so darn gullible.
We’d like to think we had something to do with Fordham’s epic spoof email prank on its student body, though to be fair, this is a pretty common trick for security firms. Plus, we wouldn’t be so rude as to send out the fake virus during finals week, even if it was the last day.
Fordham Fakes Phishing
The prank pulled off by Fordham’s IT department was doubly genius, as it spoofed a current phishing scam that has been plaguing court systems across the country for the last few months.
According to Above the Law, at 1:25 p.m on Monday, the school sent their own version of the fake “Notice to appear” emails, which read:
Dear Sir or Madame
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