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Some American universities are being targeted by phishing emails masquerading as messages from their academic department or support centre.
The Harvard Crimson university newspaper notes that some students at the prestigious centre of learning have been sent emails requesting they "complete" their account by replying with their passwords.
Jonathan L Zittrain, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School with a specialisation in internet law, told the student publication: "This practice - known in internet slang as phishing - is so common as to be routine."
A client technology advisor on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences urged students to be sceptical when they received emails and not to reply to anything which looked suspicious.
Meanwhile, students at the University of Texas have been warned about a phishing scam which requests information such as the password of their email account and date of birth, online news source KXAN.com reports.
The fraudulent email encourages students to reply, threatening that if they do not then their account will be deleted.
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