{"id":555,"date":"2021-03-16T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=555"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:16:09","slug":"covid-19-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/03\/16\/covid-19-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not reply to unsolicited emails about COVID-19 aid or click on any links in them (not that there are any in this particular one). In the vast majority of cases, they are scams sent out by malicious people trying to take advantage of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of variations of this campaign that use different Gmail addresses from the one in the screenshot. If you see an email of this sort and the sender is using a free email provider like Gmail, you can be pretty certain it&#8217;s a scam.<\/p>\n<p>For official information about government COVID relief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/covid-19\/economic-recovery\/benefit\">https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/covid-19\/economic-recovery\/benefit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Federal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/economic-response-plan.html\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/economic-response-plan.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-556\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/2021-03-16-covid-19-aid.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/2021-03-16-covid-19-aid.png 773w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/2021-03-16-covid-19-aid-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/03\/2021-03-16-covid-19-aid-768x461.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not reply to unsolicited emails about COVID-19 aid or click on any links in them (not that there are any in this particular one). In the vast majority of cases, they are scams sent out by malicious people trying to take advantage of the pandemic. There are a couple of variations of this campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/03\/16\/covid-19-aid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19 Aid<\/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-555","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\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}