UK uni warns students of phishers trying to nick their tuition fees

  • 20 July 2017
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? You shall have a phishy on a little dishy when the hack comes in

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco 20 Jul 2017 

 
Foreign students looking to experience the stochastic joys of a year at Newcastle University in England are being warned that phishers are after their cash – using an unusually well-crafted attack.
 
The raiders set up a very realistic-looking fake website proclaiming itself to be Newcastle International University, complete with pages of well-laid-out information. The URL isn't that of the actual university site, but if you're a student unfamiliar with the center of learning, it would be easy to be fooled.
 
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