{"id":269,"date":"2025-01-23T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=269"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:37:43","slug":"8665-00-tuition-assistance-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/01\/23\/8665-00-tuition-assistance-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"$8,665.00 Tuition Assistance Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/01\/Bank-Mobile-982x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of fake BankMobile website requesting personal information. This is linked to the fake tuition assistance.\" width=\"982\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is coming from an email labeled MSU Updates<\/li>\n<li>Email has an official MSU web banner<\/li>\n<li>Email is signed off by Financial Assistance at MSU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is not coming from an official MSU financial aid email<\/li>\n<li>Link provides a BankMobile webpage requesting very sensitive data<\/li>\n<li>Email has spelling errors, some have the subject starting with CONGRATULATION<\/li>\n<li>Banner is for Information Technology not associated with the financial aid department<\/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 is coming from an email labeled MSU Updates Email has an official MSU web banner Email is signed off by Financial Assistance at MSU Why this is phishing? Email is not coming from an official MSU financial aid email Link provides a BankMobile webpage requesting very sensitive data Email has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","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\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}