{"id":130,"date":"2024-07-31T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=130"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:37:51","slug":"email-account-shutdown-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2024\/07\/31\/email-account-shutdown-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Account Shutdown (Office 365)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Text message says it&#8217;s from the IT Service Desk<\/li>\n<li>A previous Office 365 email had gone out regarding account deactivation<\/li>\n<li>Text message points to an authentication code via Google<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>MSU will not text the campus community unless it is associated with emergency messages via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/university-police\/emergency\/rave-mobile-safety\/\">Rave Mobile<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The IT Service Desk will never request any Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) codes.<\/li>\n<li>Attacker is creating a sense of urgency by stating the individual will lose their email account.<\/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: Text message says it&#8217;s from the IT Service Desk A previous Office 365 email had gone out regarding account deactivation Text message points to an authentication code via Google Why this is phishing? MSU will not text the campus community unless it is associated with emergency messages via Rave Mobile. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}