{"id":190,"date":"2020-06-29T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=190"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:21:56","slug":"fake-verify-your-account-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/06\/29\/fake-verify-your-account-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake &#8220;verify your account&#8221; phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish tries to persuade the victim that they need to click a link to verify their account.\u00a0 It opens a page that pretends to belong to UVic and steals the credentials of the victim. Do not click on that link!<br \/>\nThe email looks like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-191\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues0-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues0-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues0-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues0.png 921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The page pretends to be UVic, but clearly is external (see the address bar)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues-300x230.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/06\/isuues.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish tries to persuade the victim that they need to click a link to verify their account.\u00a0 It opens a page that pretends to belong to UVic and steals the credentials of the victim. Do not click on that link! The email looks like this: &nbsp; The page pretends to be UVic, but clearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/06\/29\/fake-verify-your-account-phish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake &#8220;verify your account&#8221; phish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","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\/190","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\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}