Phishing Email Guidance 2025
Tips for recognizing phishing emails:
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Emails from outside of DLC always have an external disclaimer on them. These are there to let you know that this email came from outside of our system and most likely was not sent by DLC’s IT Dept. The disclaimer looks like this and is on all emails that come from senders outside of DLC:
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- IT will never ask you for your password in an email. If you receive an email requesting your password to be checked or changed, please delete or report the message. If you are not sure and need clarification, please call the Help Desk at x4357 option 1.
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- Scammers use the holidays to send fake invoice, shipping, and order related emails. Please be extra vigilant during the holidays as you may receive a higher volume of phishing emails.
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- If you receive an email and do not recognize the sender, please delete the message.
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- Even if the email looks to be from someone you know but sounds odd or uses vague wording, please call them to verify whether they sent the email. If the email does not have contact information, it is most likely a phishing attempt.
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- Hovering over links in an email can help to identify phishing emails. If the link does not match up to the email content, please do not click it. In the email below, the link did not go to Microsoft so the email was a phishing email attempt. The next step is to report the message from within Outlook. Please stop and think before clicking!