{"id":1319,"date":"2022-11-22T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T00:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2022-11-22T17:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T01:54:52","slug":"uvic-webmail-themed-spoof-phish-with-no-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/11\/22\/uvic-webmail-themed-spoof-phish-with-no-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"UVic Webmail-themed spoof phish with no subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish spoofed a UVic email address but actually came from outside of UVic. As well as the empty subject line, there are plenty of red flags in the message content:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The message instills a false sense of urgency and threatens an adverse impact.<\/li>\n<li>There are plenty of capitalization and grammatical errors, and the spacing in the last paragraph is weird. Indeed, the whole email looks like it was put together rather sloppily.<\/li>\n<li>The link shown to you is for a site on Weebly, a free website builder. No real UVic login page would ever be hosted on a free website builder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you hover over any of the links, you&#8217;ll actually see a Google redirect URL. Phishers may use a Google redirect or something similar to make the URL look less phishy and hide the real destination.<\/p>\n<p>As always, don&#8217;t click on the links! If you did, reach out to the Computer Help Desk or your department&#8217;s IT support staff for assistance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1320\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/11\/2022-11-22-spoof-phish-weebly-link.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"783\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/11\/2022-11-22-spoof-phish-weebly-link.png 783w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/11\/2022-11-22-spoof-phish-weebly-link-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2022\/11\/2022-11-22-spoof-phish-weebly-link-768x340.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish spoofed a UVic email address but actually came from outside of UVic. As well as the empty subject line, there are plenty of red flags in the message content: The message instills a false sense of urgency and threatens an adverse impact. There are plenty of capitalization and grammatical errors, and the spacing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2022\/11\/22\/uvic-webmail-themed-spoof-phish-with-no-subject\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UVic Webmail-themed spoof phish with no subject<\/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-1319","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\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}