{"id":748,"date":"2021-10-14T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=748"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:41:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:41:52","slug":"if-you-do-not-verify-your-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/10\/14\/if-you-do-not-verify-your-account\/","title":{"rendered":"If you do not verify your account&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of today&#8217;s phishing emails plays on encouraging an urgent response.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-749\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/verify-your-account.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/verify-your-account.jpg 701w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/verify-your-account-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many flags in this messages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Your account will be suspended&#8221;?? No. Your account will not be suspended. There are many scenarios where you account may become inaccessible. If you cannot rectify it yourself from your UVic Portal,\u00a0 typically a quick call to the Computer Help Desk should get you going again.<\/li>\n<li>Who does the email seems to come from?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it being sent to an email that &#8220;looks like&#8221; a Microsoft email? Is it a legit Microsoft email?? No, it is not.<\/li>\n<li>Did you previously receive &#8220;multiple confirmations&#8221; that were verified to be legitimate? *This is perhaps a play on the volume of email you receive and how busy we are.<\/li>\n<li>We will never ask you provide your email, username and password after clicking a link. In that very very rare scenario, you would have requested information but typically we will direct you to go to the UVic Account Portal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This site will land on a Fake Outlook Web Access\u00a0 (OWA) logon page. Note that in this case, there is a Wix banner. UVic does not host advertisements on the OWA logon page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of today&#8217;s phishing emails plays on encouraging an urgent response. There are many flags in this messages. &#8220;Your account will be suspended&#8221;?? No. Your account will not be suspended. There are many scenarios where you account may become inaccessible. If you cannot rectify it yourself from your UVic Portal,\u00a0 typically a quick call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/10\/14\/if-you-do-not-verify-your-account\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If you do not verify your account&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","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\/748","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\/968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}