{"id":349,"date":"2020-10-26T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=349"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T18:39:25","slug":"open-that-fax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/10\/26\/open-that-fax\/","title":{"rendered":"Open that Fax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital faxes have replaced most old school fax machines, and we do see fake emails trying to trick users into clicking a link to a fax. If you&#8217;re not expecting one, it is suspicious. If it appears to be from a vendor you know, considering calling them to confirm before opening.<\/p>\n<p>This phishing email also used some odd website encoding for some of the text (e.g. &#8216;visiting below&#8217;) that only displays correctly in certain email software, such as Outlook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-355 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/10\/fax-1-1024x623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/10\/fax-1-1024x623.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/10\/fax-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/10\/fax-1-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2020\/10\/fax-1.jpg 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital faxes have replaced most old school fax machines, and we do see fake emails trying to trick users into clicking a link to a fax. If you&#8217;re not expecting one, it is suspicious. If it appears to be from a vendor you know, considering calling them to confirm before opening. This phishing email also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2020\/10\/26\/open-that-fax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open that Fax?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","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\/349","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\/3223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}