{"id":15,"date":"2015-09-09T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=15"},"modified":"2015-09-15T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:18:27","slug":"important-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/important-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff66bb; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/importantspamexample.jpg\" alt=\"importantspamexample\" width=\"650\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/importantspamexample.jpg 650w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/importantspamexample-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2015\/09\/importantspamexample-500x227.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks like it is from a known, valid Vassar email address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is\u00a0spam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;To:&#8221; field contained a very large list of people at Vassar<\/li>\n<li>The URL, or link, embedded in the message is not a familiar one<\/li>\n<li>The URL, or link, embedded in the message goes to a pharmaceutical website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you know the person who appeared to have sent the message, call them and ask if they sent it. \u00a0It only takes a few minutes to verify if it is legitimate.<\/li>\n<li>Report it as spam\u00a0to Google. \u00a0Before deleting the message, make sure to click on &#8220;report spam&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>This message went out to hundreds of Vassar constituents, with different originating email addresses and different links in the content of the message.<\/li>\n<li>A little paranoia goes a long way! \u00a0Be suspicious of any email messages similar to this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}