University phone numbers are being used in a new Phone Spoofing campaign where cybercriminals are trying to trick our users into revealing information.
Phone Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies their caller information so that their call appears to be from someone else. Scammers use this method to try and impersonate a phone number that you might recognize in order to convince you to give them valuable information.
In this latest campaign, the scammers were impersonating Clemson 656-xxxx numbers and targeting Clemson employees.
Since the Clemson Phone Systems are not being utilized as part of this scam, we have no way of blocking these fraudulent calls. If you receive one of these Phone Spoofing calls, please collect as many details regarding the incident as you can and send that information to ithelp.clemson.edu.
