{"id":443,"date":"2018-08-09T23:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=443"},"modified":"2018-08-09T23:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T03:02:32","slug":"urgent-itunes-gift-card-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/urgent-itunes-gift-card-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT (iTunes gift card scam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-444\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ff0000;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/08\/August9iTunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/08\/August9iTunes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/08\/August9iTunes-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The message appears to be from someone at Vassar College.<\/li>\n<li>The message has a personal greeting.<\/li>\n<li>It is likely the message appears to be from one of your supervisors at Vassar College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is fraud<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The originating email address is from gmail.com, not from vassar.edu.<\/li>\n<li>Grammatical errors are often indicators of malicious emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>iTunes gift card scams are common!\u00a0 There have been an increase in these scams over the last few months.\u00a0 Here is a summary news story about it:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metro.us\/news\/the-big-stories\/itunes-gift-card-scam\">https:\/\/www.metro.us\/news\/the-big-stories\/itunes-gift-card-scam<\/a><\/li>\n<li>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\">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":[80938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}