Recently, there has been an increase in phishing scams targeting employees of all ages with fraudulent retirement consultation offers.
These emails often appear to come from realistic sounding groups such as āEmployee Benefits Groupā and will try to get you to reply to the message by offering you a consultation on your retirement account.
What to watch for:
- Unsolicited emails offering retirement consultations.
- Claims of affiliation with your retirement plan or Ļć½¶Šć HR department.
- Emails from unfamiliar senders that are not from authentic Ļć½¶Šć, Fidelity, or TIAA email addresses.
What to do:
- Do not respond to these emails.
- Do not click on any links or open attachments.
- If youāre unsure if an email is legitimate, use contact information you already have about the sender to contact them, and verify the authenticity of the message.
- Forward suspicious emails to phishing@bc.edu. When you forwarded messages to phishing@bc.edu you will receive an AI-designed follow-up email letting you know if the email was malicious or safe. As AI is an experimental tool, you may occasionally receive an incorrect assessment. So when in doubt, you can also forward the suspicious email to the IT Security Team at security@bc.edu. Reporting malicious/spam messages will also allow our security tool to remove similar messages from other Ļć½¶Šć Inboxes, helping protect you and the broader Ļć½¶Šć community.
- Learn more about identifying and reporting fraudulent emails.
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Need Help?
If you think you replied to one of these phishing scams with sensitive information, please contact the IT Security team at security@bc.edu and they will provide you with next steps for protecting your account.