How to tell if an email message from Yale is legitimate

ITS will NEVER ask you to send information about your account like passwords or other sensitive personal information via email. When ITS does send messages on behalf of the University, we always provide a link at the bottom that confirms the authenticity of the message by taking you to the official Yale Messages website:

NOTE:  This official Yale University message can also be viewed at: https://light.its.yale.edu/messages/UnivMsgs/detail.asp?Msg=48561

Since we recommend that you not click on a link in an email, you can navigate to the official Yale University Message page: http://www.yale.edu/messages to locate and verify the authenticity of official messages.

You can certify that the webpage to which you are directed is authentic by clicking on the “VeriSign Secured “ logo on the top right corner of the screen:

Clicking on the VerSign logo will display a page verifying the authenticity of the Yale website:

 

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