{"id":209,"date":"2016-03-15T14:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:08:43","slug":"check-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/check-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Check File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-210\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/03\/MarchGoogleCheckFile.jpg\" alt=\"MarchGoogleCheckFile\" width=\"608\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/03\/MarchGoogleCheckFile.jpg 608w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/03\/MarchGoogleCheckFile-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/03\/MarchGoogleCheckFile-604x218.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The &#8220;from&#8221; field appears to contain a valid Vassar email address.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Vassar College uses Google Drive, it is not uncommon to see requests to view files stored there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The URL, or link, contained in the message does not link to Google.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This message does not look like a normal Google Drive sharing notification.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grammar errors, spelling errors, and generic salutations and sign-offs are usually indicative of a suspicious email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A phone call to the alleged sender would quickly verify if this is a legitimate email. It only takes a few minutes to pick up the phone!<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Report it as phishing to Google. Before deleting the message, make sure to click on \u201creport phishing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little paranoia goes a long way! Be 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":[80936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}