{"id":78590,"date":"2019-03-21T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=78590"},"modified":"2019-03-19T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:45:20","slug":"how-to-identify-phishing-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/how-to-identify-phishing-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Identify Phishing Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being part of an organization like a university, students are at risk of so-called \u201cphishing messages.\u201d What are they? How do you identify them?<\/p>\n<p>Phishing scams are fraudulent emails, phone calls or text messages that try to entice you to divulge private information. Be skeptical if an email contains any of the following:<br \/>\nHyperlinks within emails.<br \/>\nSpelling errors in the email address or a different email than the providers other emails.<br \/>\nGeneric references to yourself like \u201cHello User&#8221; or &#8220;Student.&#8221;<br \/>\nEmails that promise easy-sounding jobs with good pay but with few to no details.<br \/>\nEmails that instill panic, give deadlines or give dire warning.<br \/>\nGeneric salutations like \u201cfrom IT administrators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helpdesk.owu.edu\/nw\/pw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/helpdesk.owu.edu\/nw\/pw\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services.<br \/>\nContact: David Soliday at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being part of an organization like a university, students are at risk of so-called \u201cphishing messages.\u201d What are they? How do you identify them? Phishing scams are fraudulent emails, phone calls or text messages that try to entice you to divulge private information. Be skeptical if an email contains any of the following: Hyperlinks within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78591,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78590\/revisions\/78591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}