Alert Regarding New Phishing Emails

We have been alerted to some new phishing emails which have been received here at Middlebury. One example is:

Subject: (IRS) Identity Protection
To:
Internal Revenue Service.
Your 2014 1098-T tax Form is now available electronically on Banner Self-Service.

Update your IRS E-file immediately, click here to –
For your protection, this link would expire in six hours.

These messages are NOT legitimate. Please do NOT click on the provided link or disclose any information to the Google form linked to from the message. These messages can be very cleverly disguised, but we will NEVER ask for any identification information via email, so always remain wary of any such email. More information is available at http://go.middlebury.edu/phish

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