CDC H1N1 “Swine Flu” - PHISHING SCAM

The Hillsdale Police Department would like to alert area residents to a new email scam that has been recently detected.

Summary: The Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) at the CDC, with the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has received reports of fraudulent emails (this is an Internet phenomeon known as phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program for the H1N1 “Swine Flu” contagion.

Everyone should be aware that the CDC has NOT implemented a state vaccination program requiring registration o­n www.cdc.gov, contrary to any emails that you might recieve.   

Please be aware that those who click o­n the embedded link in this email are at risk of having malicious code installed o­n their system.

OCISO would like to remind users to take the following steps to reduce the risk of being a victim of a phishing attack:

1. Do not follow unsolicited links and do not open or respond to unsolicited email messages.2. Use caution when visiting un-trusted websites.3. Use caution when entering personal information o­nline.

For an example of a phishing email, please visit the CDC website o­n Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors at http://www.cdc.gov/hoaxes_rumors.html