{"id":1069,"date":"2022-07-08T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T18:08:03","slug":"your-deactivation-request-in-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/07\/08\/your-deactivation-request-in-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Your deactivation request in process."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other Microsoft-themed phishing messages, this one uses the threat of impending account deactivation to get you to hastily click on the link. But take a moment to look closely and you&#8217;ll spot a lot of red flags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sender display name contains an error (office<strong>635<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>The sender email address is not from Microsoft (or UVic, for that matter)<\/li>\n<li>The greeting is impersonal<\/li>\n<li>The message contains a good deal of awkward wording and grammatical errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hovering over the link is also a good idea&#8211;that would show that it doesn&#8217;t go to a Microsoft website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1070\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/deactivation-2022-07-08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/deactivation-2022-07-08.png 779w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/deactivation-2022-07-08-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/07\/deactivation-2022-07-08-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other Microsoft-themed phishing messages, this one uses the threat of impending account deactivation to get you to hastily click on the link. But take a moment to look closely and you&#8217;ll spot a lot of red flags: The sender display name contains an error (office635) The sender email address is not from Microsoft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/07\/08\/your-deactivation-request-in-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your deactivation request in process.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}