GW Information Technology (GW IT) is investigating a scam email targeting the GW community. The scam email, which has the subject “2023 Benefits Open Enrollment”, was sent from a compromised GW email account requesting targets to provide personal information and update benefits information. In some cases, recipients were redirected to fake sign in locations auto filling their UserID and asking for a password. Others have been asked to download an attachment related to user benefits. GW IT has taken the appropriate measures to respond to this phishing attack, including contacting the GW users who received this scam email.

GW IT continues to take proactive measures to keep our campus community safe. We are reminding GW students, faculty and staff to ignore such requests for information and report any suspicious electronic communication immediately to abuse@gwu.edu.

We continue to see cybercriminals attempting to impersonate instructors, academic advisors, human resources or other members of the GW community to trick students and employees into giving up personal information. This can also take the form of a fake job offer.

As a rule, students are only hired for GW student jobs through official channels like GW Career Services. Also, to protect yourself from job scams that involve someone pretending to be a GW community member, do not respond to any unsolicited emailed job offers if you have not applied for one and without verifying through an official source. The same applies for text messages, even if the sender claims to be someone you know from the university community.

To learn more about Phishing, check GW IT site at: https://it.gwu.edu/phishing

Questions? Concerns? Please contact GW Information Technology at 202-994-GWIT (4948), ithelp@gwu.edu or ithelp.gwu.edu/support

This message has been sent in accordance with the George Washington University mass email policy and procedure. This message was requested by GW Information Technology and was approved by the Vice Provost, Libraries and Information Technology & Dean, Libraries and Academic Innovation.

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