Keep your email safe

Your UFV-provided email address keeps you connected to important UFV announcements, helps you collaborate with UFV community members, and lets you sign on to several services (e.g. Blackboard/myClass, Office 365 tools, Zoom, and more). UFV uses several tools to monitor the security of our email systems.

How your UFV email is protected

External email warning

To assist students, staff, and faculty to more easily identify phishing emails, UFV Cybersecurity has implemented an External Email Security Warning. When you receive an email from outside of UFV, you will see [EXTERNAL] in the subject line and a yellow caution footer. The warning tag is not an indicator that the email is phishing or fraudulent. It's there to remind you to check the authenticity of the message before clicking on links, opening any attachments, or responding.

Junk items folder

The Outlook Junk Items folder holds suspected spam and junk for your review. Where possible, we try not to block suspected spam emails. Instead, they are sent to the Junk folder for your review.

Learn more about the junk items folder >

How you can keep your email safe

Learn how to spot phishing or spoofed emails

Phishing is a scam that tries to trick you into revealing personal and sensitive information such as login credentials and banking details. Attackers usually do this by pretending to be a person or company that you know and trust. They might sign the email in someone else's name, or they can take it one step further and spoof the sender's address.

For details on how to tell if an email is legitimate and what to do if you suspect phishing, go to the Phishing & spoofed email FAQs page >

Report suspicious email

If you receive spam, phishing, or even an email that seems 'off', report it to phishreport@ufv.ca.

Did you know that phishing is the most common cybercrime? The Cybersecurity team needs your help to fight it! Reporting suspicious emails helps our team keep up to date with the latest threats and stop attacks before they happen.

Train your junk folder to filter spam messages correctly

We recommend that you regularly review messages in the Junk folder, and re-categorize emails if you find they are not junk. Doing so helps to improve future spam detections.

Learn more about the junk items folder >