The email below is fake. It is an attempt to trick you into giving away your Ryerson user name and password.
Please do NOT respond to any email that requests you provide your Ryerson password.
Please do NOT use your Ryerson password to login to a non-Ryerson site.
NEVER send your password to anyone by email or use your Ryerson password to login to non-Ryerson systems. Make sure the URL in your browser’s location field is my.ryerson.ca, mail.ryerson.ca or some other name that ends with .ryerson.ca before entering your Ryerson password.
Recently fake emails have been sent to the Ryerson community; each asked you to click on a link that takes you to a non .ryerson.ca address or asked that you provide your password via email. Some of these emails claim to be from Ryerson’s “Help Desk”.
If you receive an email like those, please do NOT respond. Delete the message from your mailbox immediately.
– Computing and Communications Services
Sample of Fake Email:
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From: Ryerson.ca Database <tunuevanutricion@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:46 AM
Subject: Ryerson.ca Upgrade
To:
We are currently updating all our Ryerson.ca subscribers email account in order to increase the Efficiency of our account features. To take part in this recent update taking place at our email Service therefore You must visit our Account Verification System to confirm your email account details as listed below.
Kindly CLICK HERE TO VERIFY