{"id":652,"date":"2022-05-02T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/?p=652"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:25:28","slug":"covid-19-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/covid-19-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;COVID-19 Benefits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Subject: FW: Covid-19 Benefits<br \/>\nTo:<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"color: #404040;background: white\">In response to the current hardship in the community\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222\">due to the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic,<\/span><span style=\"color: #404040;background: white\"> the Employee Assistance Program <\/span><span style=\"color: #222222\">has decided to support <\/span>students and <span style=\"color: #222222\">employees.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"color: #201f1e\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"color: #404040;background: white\">The Employee Assistance Program<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222\"> will pay <u>$3,780.00<\/u> to all eligible\u00a0<\/span>students and <span style=\"color: #222222\">employees, as\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0benefits, starting from,\u00a0<\/span><strong><u><span style=\"color: #c00000\">Friday, April 29, 2022<\/span><\/u><\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: #222222\"><br \/>\nVisit the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">COVID-19 SUPPORT HUB<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"> <span style=\"color: #222222\">and login with your email to submit your application.<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">Note: This Benefits Program is available to all students and employees.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"color: #222222\">Sincerely,<\/span><span style=\"color: #201f1e\">\u00a0<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222\">COVID-19\u00a0Support Team<\/span><\/strong><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: start;background-color: white\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;color: black\">Employee\u00a0Assistance\u00a0Program<\/span><\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\"><u><\/u>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">The email appears to be offering assistance for Covid-19 from the College.<\/li>\n<li>The email directs the reader to the &#8220;Covid-19 Support hub&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;From&#8221; field of the sender is from a random email<\/li>\n<li>The email is vague about the details of the program and who it is directed towards.<\/li>\n<li>The URL of the link has been masked to hide its true domain.<\/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 filled in your credentials, please contact the Service Desk immediately at x7224 or <a href=\"mailto:servicedesk@vassar.edu\">servicedesk@vassar.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remember:<\/strong>\u00a0 our core services including Google, Workday, Moodle, Office365, Dropbox, and many others are only available through our <a href=\"http:\/\/one.vassar.edu\">VassarOne<\/a> single-sign-on platform.\u00a0 <em>If you see a login screen that does not look like ours, don&#8217;t put in your credentials!<\/em><\/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>Did you know: the best way to protect your accounts is by using multi-factor authentication. See our post <a href=\"https:\/\/servicedesk.vassar.edu\/solutions\/571021-multi-factor-authentication-for-iam-with-duo.portal\">HERE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Subject: FW: Covid-19 Benefits To: &nbsp; In response to the current hardship in the community\u00a0due to the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic, the Employee Assistance Program has decided to support students and employees. \u00a0 The Employee Assistance Program will pay $3,780.00 to all eligible\u00a0students and employees, as\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0benefits, starting from,\u00a0Friday, April 29, 2022 Visit the\u00a0COVID-19 SUPPORT HUB and login with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/covid-19-benefits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;COVID-19 Benefits&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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\/10073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/catchoftheday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}