The term phishing refers to attempts to obtain access data from people or systems.

A phishing e-mail may, for example, contain a UW/H sender address and will ask you to enter your access data on a supposed UW/H website.

Your access data entered there will then usually be misused to send thousands of spam e-mails via your account. Our mail server is then registered on the Internet after a short time as a spam spinner and the acceptance of e-mails is then refused by others.

Whenever a mail seems "suspicious" or "strange" to you, it *is*! Please delete this mail then.

Currently in circulation (examples)

2. if you have followed a link you have received by e-mail and are asked to log in on the website, do so only if you are shown an address of the following scheme in the address line of the browser:

"*.uni-wh.de" (asterisk = any text) The dot in front of "uni-wh.de" is important here!

An address like "https://login.owa-uni-wh.de" is therefore not a valid address, even if it may seem so at first glance.

If the displayed address does not correspond to this scheme, then it is not a UW/H website, the mail did not come from us, and you are about to fall for a phishing attempt. Close the page and delete the mail!

3. never open attachments of mails that have been sent to you unsolicited or from unknown senders!

IMPORTANT: A sender is not "known" if you are familiar with the name displayed by your e-mail software, but only if the actual sender address of the e-mail matches the displayed name!

In case of doubt, please contact us: bit-support@spam protectuni-wh.de

The SMTP protocol used for mail delivery dates back to the early days of the Internet and unfortunately offers little possibility to reliably determine the seriousness of senders.

Non-delivery of desired and possibly even urgently needed mails is to be avoided, so we cannot set the filter rules too aggressively.

Therefore, a rest of unwanted mails, can hardly be avoided.