This university’s IT department regularly sends out warnings about scammers and phishing, since some students and faculty fall prey every semester, says a pilot fish on the scene.

“One day our email quantity alarm went off, and we found that Dr. John Smith’s account was sending 500 emails an hour to various addresses,” fish says.

“So we called Dr. Smith and let him know that his account had been compromised. He reported that he got an email from IT that said, ‘We need your username and password to verify your account.’ I then listened politely to a short lecture about how ‘you people should encrypt those emails, so people wouldn’t steal the passwords.'”

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