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Report phishing

What is phishing?

What do we expect from you?

• Do not answer to a phishing scam!
• Help us to enhance the detection system and report phishing attempts as describe below.
• Please do NOT forward the phishing mails to our helpdesk e-mail address

Send phishing messages attached to a new post

Send the phishing message attached to a new post, to phishing@ugent.be. Enter "phishing" as subject. 

Remarks

1. Emails sent from outside the university through the smtp server of any other provider, will not be stopped.
2. Emails sent to phishing@ugent.be will be forwarded to verdacht@safeonweb.be. You can receive an autoreply from noreply@safeonweb.be.
3. If you get the following error message, you have answered to a known a phishing message.

554 5.7.1 :
Recipient address rejected: Don't respond to phishing emails!
See http://helpdesk.ugent.be/email/en/phishing.php

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