{"id":274,"date":"2016-10-05T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-10-27T09:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:32:44","slug":"students-new-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/students-new-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Students (new package)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-275\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsEmail.jpg\" alt=\"october5studentsemail\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsEmail.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsEmail-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsScreenShot.jpg\" alt=\"october5studentsscreenshot\" width=\"545\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsScreenShot.jpg 545w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2016\/10\/October5StudentsScreenShot-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/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 Vassar post office sends notifications regarding packages.<\/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\">A valid Vassar post office package notification does not contain any links or require a login to view package details.<\/li>\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\">No Vassar College service login page asks for a phone number as part of authentication.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pages that ask a user to select their provider for login are usually phishing attempts.<\/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\">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-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}