{"id":118,"date":"2020-05-12T12:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=118"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:17:50","slug":"an-example-of-email-spoofing-in-a-covid-19-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/05\/12\/an-example-of-email-spoofing-in-a-covid-19-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"An example of email spoofing in a COVID-19 phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes an email will look like it came from a legitimate sender, but in reality the sender email was faked. This is called <strong>email spoofing<\/strong>, and the phish below gives a good example of that. Here, the phisher spoofed distributions@grants.gov, but a close look at the mail headers revealed that it did not come from grants.gov and replies to the message would actually be sent to a different, very suspicious-looking address.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/05\/2020-05-12-COVID-19-relief-funds-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/05\/2020-05-12-COVID-19-relief-funds-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/05\/2020-05-12-COVID-19-relief-funds-768x635.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/05\/2020-05-12-COVID-19-relief-funds.png 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes an email will look like it came from a legitimate sender, but in reality the sender email was faked. This is called email spoofing, and the phish below gives a good example of that. Here, the phisher spoofed distributions@grants.gov, but a close look at the mail headers revealed that it did not come from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/05\/12\/an-example-of-email-spoofing-in-a-covid-19-phish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An example of email spoofing in a COVID-19 phish<\/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-118","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\/118","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=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}