{"id":766,"date":"2021-10-21T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=766"},"modified":"2021-10-21T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:06:56","slug":"final-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/10\/21\/final-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Warning!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look closely at the lettering, you&#8217;ll notice that in some places a lowercase &#8220;a&#8221; has been replaced with &#8220;\u03b1&#8221; (lowercase Greek letter alpha). Phishers will sometimes use lookalike characters (a.k.a. homoglyphs) in this manner to try to evade spam filters. If you spot this sort of character substitution, you can be pretty certain the email is a phish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-767\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/2021-10-21-final-warning.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/2021-10-21-final-warning.png 776w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/2021-10-21-final-warning-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/10\/2021-10-21-final-warning-768x484.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look closely at the lettering, you&#8217;ll notice that in some places a lowercase &#8220;a&#8221; has been replaced with &#8220;\u03b1&#8221; (lowercase Greek letter alpha). Phishers will sometimes use lookalike characters (a.k.a. homoglyphs) in this manner to try to evade spam filters. If you spot this sort of character substitution, you can be pretty certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/10\/21\/final-warning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Warning!!<\/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-766","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\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}