{"id":1151,"date":"2005-05-06T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2005-05-06T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T20:43:53","slug":"phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/06\/phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phishing\">phishing<\/a> email yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/images\/blog\/ebay_phish_mail.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/images\/blog\/ebay_phish_mail_sm.gif\" title=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It <i>looks<\/i> like an official email. I actually clicked the link, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eudora.com\/\">Eudora<\/a> alerted me that the URL I was clicking on was different from the one listed. That didn&#8217;t throw up any red flags because lots of companies use third party emailers, but for whatever reason, I decided not to continue on and just typed &#8220;ebay.com&#8221; into my browser. It was only then that it occurred to me that this might be a fake email. Some signs:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The email address they sent the message to is not the address I use with ebay.\n<li>The mailer is a program called The Bat!, which I believe is a bulk email program.\n<li>My name isn&#8217;t eBay.\n<li>That credit card number&#8217;s completely wrong.\n<\/ol>\n<p>Careful out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this phishing email yesterday: It looks like an official email. I actually clicked the link, but Eudora alerted me that the URL I was clicking on was different from the one listed. That didn&#8217;t throw up any red flags because lots of companies use third party emailers, but for whatever reason, I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ssIKy-phishing","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}