{"id":138,"date":"2018-10-01T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2011\/03\/28\/real-emails-and-scams-how-do-you-tell-the-difference\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:54:49","slug":"real-emails-and-scams-how-do-you-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2018\/10\/01\/real-emails-and-scams-how-do-you-tell-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Emails and Scams: How do You Tell the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all encountered these emails\u2014official-looking messages that say &#8220;Click here to reactivate your account,\u201d or \u201cClick here to confirm your identity,\u201d etc&#8211;emails that are really just scam attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are quite tricky! They might appear to come from someone you know, or look like an official notice, nudging you to act with warnings about bank balances or email quotas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be careful.\u00a0 Be wary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/article\/spam-and-phishing#how-do-i-know-if-a-message-is-legitimate-or-not\">And be aware of certain cues<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Also know this:\u00a0UVM IT staff will NEVER ask for your passwords.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: none;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/6e\/AckbarStanding.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all encountered these emails\u2014official-looking messages that say &#8220;Click here to reactivate your account,\u201d or \u201cClick here to confirm your identity,\u201d etc&#8211;emails that are really just scam attempts. Some of them are quite tricky! They might appear to come from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2018\/10\/01\/real-emails-and-scams-how-do-you-tell-the-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-security-and-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}