{"id":689,"date":"2021-08-13T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=689"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:17:46","slug":"confirm-your-account-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/08\/13\/confirm-your-account-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirm your account phish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This phish was sent in a massive wave to many UVic accounts today. The link points to a fake Outlook Web Access page which seems pretty similar to the real one. As you can see the sender Xing Wu from Germany has nothing to do with your supposedly blocked emails, uses the typical scaring tactics that you should act immediately and demonstrates some broken grammar. As we always repeat &#8211; please do not be curious and do not open those links, they may contain malware.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-690\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/08\/confirmemailphishing20210813.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"714\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/08\/confirmemailphishing20210813.png 714w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/08\/confirmemailphishing20210813-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This phish was sent in a massive wave to many UVic accounts today. The link points to a fake Outlook Web Access page which seems pretty similar to the real one. As you can see the sender Xing Wu from Germany has nothing to do with your supposedly blocked emails, uses the typical scaring tactics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/08\/13\/confirm-your-account-phish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confirm your account phish<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","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\/689","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\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}