{"id":1255,"date":"2022-10-06T10:28:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T17:28:26","slug":"important-message-or-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/10\/06\/important-message-or-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Message or message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you received this phish, with either of the above subjects, claiming to be from CRA please be cautious and do not click on the link provided. This phish has a usual tactic of phishers to give a too good to be true offer.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the warning signs: Sender name is vague and fake, &#8220;Canada&#8221;, sender email address is not hosted on CRA domain, generic salutation (CRA know your name beyond just &#8220;client&#8221;), the link is external to CRA i.e., not hosted on CRA domain.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to confirm such emails is either to call CRA directly or if you have an online account with CRA, sign-in to your CRA account (only on legit CRA website) and check emails or notices in the &#8220;Mail&#8221; section. Never fall for too good to be true offers, always question the possibility of such offers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/10\/Important_message.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/10\/Important_message.jpg 655w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/10\/Important_message-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/10\/Important_message-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note: sender address could be different, from the above image, in the phish you may have received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you received this phish, with either of the above subjects, claiming to be from CRA please be cautious and do not click on the link provided. This phish has a usual tactic of phishers to give a too good to be true offer. Some of the warning signs: Sender name is vague and fake, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/10\/06\/important-message-or-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Important Message or message<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","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\/1255","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\/16870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}