{"id":226,"date":"2024-11-21T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=226"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:35:18","slug":"google-form-phish-below-is-a-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2024\/11\/21\/google-form-phish-below-is-a-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Form Phish: Below is a File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/01\/Google-Form-Phih-805x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a fake Google Form created to get login credentials.\" width=\"805\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email states its coming from a Department Chair<\/li>\n<li>Has a very vague but realistic subject<\/li>\n<li>Google Forms page states the form was created inside Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email was not coming from the MSU email domain<\/li>\n<li>Never submit your passwords or 2FA codes thorough Google Forms. We will never ask you to provide your password<\/li>\n<li>Email is vague as is the Google Form<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additional Notes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you think you&#8217;ve fallen for a scam? Did you share personal information? Downloaded malicious content? Please contact the IT Service Desk at <a href=\"tel:973-655-7971\">973-655-7971<\/a>\u00a0option 1 or email <a href=\"mailto:itservicedesk@montclair.edu\">itservicedesk@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Please send any malicious emails you have received to <a href=\"mailto:phishfiles@montclair.edu\">phishfiles@montclair.edu<\/a> or by clicking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/security\/pab\/\">Knowbe4 Phish Alert Button (PAB)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Always use the &#8220;hover over&#8221; technique to check web links before clicking! For more security tips please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/security\/security-tips\/\">Security Tips<\/a> page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why this looks valid: Email states its coming from a Department Chair Has a very vague but realistic subject Google Forms page states the form was created inside Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Why this is phishing? Email was not coming from the MSU email domain Never submit your passwords or 2FA codes thorough Google Forms. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}