{"id":385,"date":"2025-02-27T14:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:29:15","slug":"montclair-state-university-notification-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/02\/27\/montclair-state-university-notification-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Notification Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-State-University-Notification-Alert-PP-1024x584.png\" alt=\"PowerPoint attachment from phishing email.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ-State-University-Notification-Alert-786x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google Form associated with phishing attack.\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email display name is Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ<\/li>\n<li>Subject says Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ<\/li>\n<li>Google Form has the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Logo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is not coming from an official MSU email address<\/li>\n<li>Email has no body text just an attachment with no information<\/li>\n<li>Google PowerPoint gives a link to a Google Form in order to avoid detection<\/li>\n<li>Password is spelt with a zero and an alternative character for the letter R<\/li>\n<li>MSU will never request your personal information including passwords and MFA codes<\/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 display name is Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Subject says Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Google Form has the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Logo Why this is phishing? Email is not coming from an official MSU email address Email has no body text just an attachment with no information Google PowerPoint gives a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}