A url containing 'harvard' and redirecting to an actual faculty website is going to convince most people if the communications are plausible. Many large organiz

A url containing 'harvard' and redirecting to an actual faculty website is going to convince most people if the communications are plausible. Many large organizations use multiple url forms for emails, especially for quasi-separate divisions like business schools or extension programmes. A particularly sneaky scammer without access to Harvard mailboxes might register a plausible-sounding domain with an .ac TLD (which resembles the .ac reserved for universities in many national domain systems including the author's, but is actually a freely purchasable domain supposedly associated with Ascension Island)