{"id":248,"date":"2016-08-22T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=248"},"modified":"2016-08-23T10:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:22:52","slug":"vassar-college-merit-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/vassar-college-merit-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassar College (Merit) Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-249\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsEmail.jpg\" alt=\"August22AwardsEmail\" width=\"600\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsEmail.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsEmail-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsSS.jpg\" alt=\"August22AwardsSS\" width=\"1200\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsSS.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsSS-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsSS-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/08\/August22AwardsSS-1024x563.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email appears to be from an actual Vassar user.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email content is Vassar specific.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link redirects to a page that resembles Dropbox, a file sharing service that Vassar does use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link in the email does not go to a Vassar site or any other service related to Vassar.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">An email such as this claiming to show student awards would not come from any Vassar user, but a specific office related to academics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pages that ask a user to select their provider for login are usually phishing attempts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an extremely dangerous Phishing attempt. If you clicked on this link and may have completed the form, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/li>\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-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}