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If the email requests that you visit a website and is not from somebody you know, it is likely fraudulent. Again, check whether the email appears to be from somebody who can make that request legitimately.But don’t stop there! Also check whether the website the email asks you to visit matches the request. For example, if the email asks you to so something that requires you to login into your University of Vienna account, then the domain part of the website’s address, that is, the part before the first “/”, must end with “.univie.ac.at”. Again, watch out for variations! For example, if the domain ends with “.univle.ac.at” or “univie.info”, then the website does not belong to the University of Vienna. The website’s domain must end with “.univie.ac.at”, nothing else or the email is certainly fraudulent. The reverse does not hold true, however. Just because the website appears to be the University of Vienna, the email may still be fraudulent. There are ways to forge these addreses. Also, the University of Vienna’s network is large, some servers are run by individual departments, and hackers manage to gain access to those from time to time.
If you did visit that website (and you shouldn’t have), then you may notice that the website does not look like other University of Vienna websites. This is another warning sign. Again, the reverse is not true. We have already seen fake Univesity of Vienna websites that looked like the real thing.
Does the email request that I login somewhere?
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