{"id":447,"date":"2018-09-12T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-09-12T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:19:11","slug":"your-apple-id-has-been-locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/your-apple-id-has-been-locked\/","title":{"rendered":"Your apple ID has been locked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-449\" style=\"border: 2px solid #0000ff;padding: 1px;margin: 1px\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Sept12AppleID.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Sept12AppleID.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Sept12AppleID-145x300.jpg 145w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Sept12AppleID-493x1024.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.36.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"1039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.36.36-AM.png 735w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.36.36-AM-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.36.36-AM-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-451\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.03-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.03-AM.png 592w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.03-AM-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-452\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.28-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.28-AM.png 647w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-12-at-9.37.28-AM-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The message appears to be Apple.<\/li>\n<li>The site linked in the email looks identical to Apple.<\/li>\n<li>The message contains a lot of details including contact phone numbers to make it look more valid.<\/li>\n<li>Account locks are not uncommon, due to criminals&#8217; attempts to break in to user accounts on a regular basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The link that launches from the email does <em>not<\/em> go to apple.com.<\/li>\n<li>The body of the email contains grammatical and spelling errors.<\/li>\n<li>The phone numbers in the email are for Chase Banking, not Apple support.<\/li>\n<li>The account recovery form asks for information that is never used to setup an Apple ID account, such as Social Security Number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>This is an extremely dangerous Phishing attempt<\/em>. If you clicked on this link and completed the form, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or <a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@vassar.edu\">servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always examine the link! Look at the information in your web browser to determine whether or not the site you are directed to is actually the site in claims to be or an unknown (or suspicious) one.<\/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<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you know: the best way to protect your accounts is by using multi-factor authentication. See our recent post here: <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/2017\/06\/29\/best-practice-enabling-multi-factor-authentication-with-duo\/<\/a><\/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-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}