Please be on the alert for a fraudulent email masquerading as a legitimate message from UBC HR, as shown below. If you receive such an email, please do not respond or click on any links, and please delete the email.
Phishing attempts frequently occur. If you believe you have received a fraudulent email, report it by forwarding it as an attachment to PSYCH IT (psychiatry.it@ubc.ca) or UBC Cyber Security (security@ubc.ca).
Watch out for these common characteristics of phishing emails:
- Non-UBC Email (“CAUTION: Non-UBC Email” indicator at the top of the body of email)
- Sense of urgency and time constraint, very brief
- Requests to verify accounts or credit card numbers
- Anything too good to be true
- Unexpected Emails
- Information mismatches (e.g. when you hover over the link, the url does not match a recognized web address)
- Suspicious attachments
- Unprofessional design
Visit the following link for more information on how to spot phishing emails: https://privacymatters.ubc.ca/phishing-emails
Administrative Team & Psychiatry IT
UBC Department of Psychiatry
psychiatry.it@ubc.ca
604 827 5695
The UBC Department of Psychiatry Administration Office respectfully acknowledges the land on which we live, work and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories.