{"id":1989,"date":"2024-04-08T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:19:40","slug":"dear-qualified-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2024\/04\/08\/dear-qualified-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Qualified Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish came over the weekend and was sent in massive volume. There is only an attachment and no email body, hence, it is mostly to lure the curious users who want to know more what this email is about. Empty email body is a big red flag as there is no context provided about the email itself and the related attachment. The subject used is pretty generic and it is coming from an external sender. Hence, beware of such phishes, and don&#8217;t open attachments from unknown senders or even known senders if you were not expecting it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1990 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/04\/DearQualifiedStudent.png\" alt=\"Phish with subject &quot;Dear Qualified Student&quot; and only an attachment with no email body.\" width=\"787\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/04\/DearQualifiedStudent.png 787w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/04\/DearQualifiedStudent-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2024\/04\/DearQualifiedStudent-768x256.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"Text1\"><p>Subject: Dear Qualified Student<br \/>\nSender: Juc\u00e9lio Ribeiro &lt;****@sinaltech.pt&gt;<br \/>\nAttachment: Federal College Relief.docx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish came over the weekend and was sent in massive volume. There is only an attachment and no email body, hence, it is mostly to lure the curious users who want to know more what this email is about. Empty email body is a big red flag as there is no context provided about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2024\/04\/08\/dear-qualified-student\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Qualified Student<\/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-1989","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\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}