{"id":2199,"date":"2025-09-09T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:42:04","slug":"action-required-334207-001-r1-571-379-0917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/09\/09\/action-required-334207-001-r1-571-379-0917\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Required: 334207-001-R1 571-379-0917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>This email claims to be a document signing request from UVic. However, the sender (not shown here) was a long, partially randomized address from outside of UVic, which is the first red flag. The grammatical errors (especially the lowercase &#8220;victoria&#8221;) and the copyright footer&#8217;s erroneous reference to &#8220;University of victoria Corporation&#8221; are further signs that this email wasn&#8217;t actually from UVic. Hovering over the link will also reveal that its destination is not UVic or one of the cloud services that UVic has approved for university business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always look carefully at the email before you click on anything. Generally speaking, if the email doesn&#8217;t look quite right, it probably is a phish.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-09-action-required-phish.png\" alt=\"An error-filled phishing email claiming to be for a document from &quot;University of victoria&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-2200\" aria-describedby=\"phishtranscript20250909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-09-action-required-phish.png 572w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2025\/09\/2025-09-09-action-required-phish-251x300.png 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" id=\"phishtranscript20250909\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Signature-Required:University of victoria Resolution Document Completion Notice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi [redacted],<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of victoria Completed Document has been assigned to you for timely review and completion report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File Name: University of victoria_Q4Remittance\/Submission.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assigned To: [redacted]@uvic.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Document [link in big blue box]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please take a moment to review this document for University of victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Explore more with University of victoria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u00a9 Copyright University of victoria Corporation 2025.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email claims to be a document signing request from UVic. However, the sender (not shown here) was a long, partially randomized address from outside of UVic, which is the first red flag. The grammatical errors (especially the lowercase &#8220;victoria&#8221;) and the copyright footer&#8217;s erroneous reference to &#8220;University of victoria Corporation&#8221; are further signs that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2025\/09\/09\/action-required-334207-001-r1-571-379-0917\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Required: 334207-001-R1 571-379-0917<\/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-2199","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\/2199","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=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}