{"id":418,"date":"2018-03-06T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=418"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:56:02","slug":"emailing-cci0847760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/emailing-cci0847760\/","title":{"rendered":"Emailing: CCI0847760"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" style=\"border: 2px solid #aacc66;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/03\/March6Emailing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/03\/March6Emailing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/03\/March6Emailing-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email appears to be from a Vassar user, or a colleague from another institution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is a virus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The attachment is a zip file, a common way to send compressed files with viruses<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is not much information in the body of the email, including no specific salutation or greeting to the recipient.<\/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 spam to Google. Before deleting the message, make sure to click on \u201creport spam&#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. <em>Unsolicited attachments in email are currently a popular way to spread malware and viruses.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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":[43934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}