{"id":203,"date":"2017-06-02T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/?p=203"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:29:39","slug":"fake-email-administrator-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/2017\/06\/02\/fake-email-administrator-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Email Administrator Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have received a message asking you to login to &#8220;reset&#8221; their email.\u00a0 This is something that IT services would never ask you to do.\u00a0 It is similar to others that have asked you &#8220;verify&#8221; your email.\u00a0 As it generated a few queries, I am posting an example with an explanation of characteristics that help to determine that this is a scam.\u00a0 If you had clicked on the link before the website was taken down you would have seen a copy of the University web portal which was an attempt to steal your username and password.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam.jpg\" alt=\"The image shows an example of a fake invoice notification and illustrates aspects of the email that make it look suspicious.\" width=\"1089\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2017\/06\/emailadministrator-scam-250x177.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few people have received a message asking you to login to &#8220;reset&#8221; their email.\u00a0 This is something that IT services would never ask you to do.\u00a0 It is similar to others that have asked you &#8220;verify&#8221; your email.\u00a0 As it generated a few queries, I am posting an example with an explanation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/2017\/06\/02\/fake-email-administrator-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fake Email Administrator Message&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phishing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itsecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}