{"id":903,"date":"2012-01-03T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?page_id=903"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:07:05","slug":"phishing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/comm-collab\/e-mail\/unwanted-email\/phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoofed Messages &amp; Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"phishingmail\" src=\"\/it\/files\/2012\/01\/phishingmail.png\" alt=\"phishingmail\" width=\"226\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spoofed messages \u00a0are a kind of spam designed to look like they originated from a person or organization you could be familiar with. A spoof could also be a message that looks like it was meant for someone else but was sent to you by accident, or a returned e-mail that appears to have originated with you but contains a message you didn\u2019t send.<\/p>\n<p>Many spoofed messages are harmless. However,\u00a0<strong>a message designed to get you to provide personal information, or download software that will steal that information from you \u2014 a tactic often referred to as \u201cphishing\u201d \u2014 is a particularly dangerous kind of e-mail spoof <\/strong>because cyber criminals can use your sensitive information to steal your identity, your personal information, or your financial assets<\/p>\n<p><strong>*NOTE: If you are unsure whether an e-mail is real or if you receive an e-mail message that is abusive or harassing in nature, forward the e-mail to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:abuse@bu.edu\">abuse@bu.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoofed messages \u00a0are a kind of spam designed to look like they originated from a person or organization you could be familiar with. A spoof could also be a message that looks like it was meant for someone else but was sent to you by accident, or a returned e-mail that appears to have originated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5559,"featured_media":0,"parent":2301,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions\/10703"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}