{"id":778,"date":"2021-11-01T12:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/?p=778"},"modified":"2021-11-01T12:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:26:20","slug":"request-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/11\/01\/request-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"request (for money&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a lot of UVic employees received an email impersonating a chair\/director\/manager and trying to extort money. You can see a screenshot below. Clearly the sender is not internal, it is another &#8220;director&#8221; account registered at gmail for the sole purpose of scamming.\u00a0 Your director would not ask you for such a favour by using their gmail. Even better &#8211; you can confirm with your director\/chair\/manager that they would never ask for a favour like that by email.<br \/>\nIf in doubt &#8211; try to find them by using another channel e.g. a phone call .<\/p>\n<p>Note also that the scammer missed to capitalize &#8220;I&#8221; 3 times in that letter.\u00a0 Mistakes like that are common in scams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/11\/phish20211101c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/11\/phish20211101c.png 727w, https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4983\/2021\/11\/phish20211101c-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a lot of UVic employees received an email impersonating a chair\/director\/manager and trying to extort money. You can see a screenshot below. Clearly the sender is not internal, it is another &#8220;director&#8221; account registered at gmail for the sole purpose of scamming.\u00a0 Your director would not ask you for such a favour by using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/2021\/11\/01\/request-for-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">request (for money&#8230;)<\/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-778","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\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/phishbowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}