{"id":2196,"date":"2025-09-02T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T23:38:13","slug":"fake-onedrive-email-with-no-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/09\/02\/fake-onedrive-email-with-no-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake OneDrive email with no subject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Sometimes phishers send phish through OneDrive using compromised accounts, and other times they just create imitation OneDrive emails. This phish falls into the second category. Signs that this is not a real OneDrive file sharing notification include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The sender is not from UVic or Microsoft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The &#8220;RECIPIENTS REAL DOMAIN LLC&#8221; banner is generic\/placeholder content that wouldn&#8217;t be present on a real OneDrive email<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are errors in spelling (e.g., &#8220;Adjusment&#8221; and &#8220;Automatated&#8221;) and capitalization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hovering over the link shows that it does not go to UVic or Microsoft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-02-fake-onedrive-1024x526.png\" alt=\"A fake OneDrive email from a non-Microsoft, non-UVic sender. The text is riddled with errors.\" class=\"wp-image-2197\" aria-describedby=\"phishtranscript20250902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-02-fake-onedrive-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-02-fake-onedrive-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-02-fake-onedrive-768x395.png 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-02-fake-onedrive.png 1115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" id=\"phishtranscript20250902\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">You don&#8217;t often get email from info@******centre.com. Learn why this is important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">RECIPIENTS REAL DOMAIN LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uvic,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have one New Document waiting on your OneDrive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Document Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File:<br><strong>5894 Adjusment to Fiscal Policies Q4.pdf<\/strong><br><strong>Size<\/strong>: 23.12kb<br>Date<br><strong>September 01, 2025<\/strong><br>Note:<br><strong>You are required to review the shared document and advise accordingly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Button\/link: View on OneDrive]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">3584059-359-6-46-492-693-02035<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an Automatated OneDrive Communication. Do not reply to this mailbox.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes phishers send phish through OneDrive using compromised accounts, and other times they just create imitation OneDrive emails. This phish falls into the second category. Signs that this is not a real OneDrive file sharing notification include: You don&#8217;t often get email from info@******centre.com. Learn why this is important. RECIPIENTS REAL DOMAIN LLC Uvic, You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/09\/02\/fake-onedrive-email-with-no-subject\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake OneDrive email 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-2196","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\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}