{"id":1227,"date":"2022-09-23T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T18:19:58","slug":"microsoft-account-security-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/09\/23\/microsoft-account-security-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft account security code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish is probably imitating real account verification code emails that Microsoft sends in certain circumstances. However, although the sender claims to be the &#8220;Microsoft team&#8221;, their email address gives away the fact that they are not actually from Microsoft (note: this information may not be immediately visible in mobile mail apps). Also, if you hover over the &#8220;click here&#8221; link (or hold down your finger on it if you&#8217;re using a mobile mail app), you will see that it goes to a site on sibforms.com, which is an email sign-up form builder. Phishers regularly abuse such form builders to create phish sites; a genuine Microsoft login page would not be built on one of those.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1228\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/09\/2022-09-23-microsoft-security-code.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/09\/2022-09-23-microsoft-security-code.png 783w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/09\/2022-09-23-microsoft-security-code-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/09\/2022-09-23-microsoft-security-code-768x474.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish is probably imitating real account verification code emails that Microsoft sends in certain circumstances. However, although the sender claims to be the &#8220;Microsoft team&#8221;, their email address gives away the fact that they are not actually from Microsoft (note: this information may not be immediately visible in mobile mail apps). Also, if you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/09\/23\/microsoft-account-security-code\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft account security code<\/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-1227","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\/1227","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=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}