{"id":321,"date":"2025-02-13T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=321"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:35:02","slug":"document-shared-with-you-essential-departmental-interview-docx-letter-of-academic-concern-docx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/02\/13\/document-shared-with-you-essential-departmental-interview-docx-letter-of-academic-concern-docx\/","title":{"rendered":"Document shared with you: &#8220;Essential Departmental Interview.docx&#8221;\/&#8221;Letter of Academic Concern..docx&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Document-has-been-shared-Google-Form-762x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a phishing Google Form attempting to gather login credentials.\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email has an MSU faculty\/staff members name on the file.<\/li>\n<li>Email subjects and document attached seem legitimate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is coming from an external email address.<\/li>\n<li>The MSU faculty\/staff member&#8217;s name is in the notes section not the creator\/sender&#8217;s section.<\/li>\n<li>Email sends to a Google Doc that contains a link to a Google Form requesting email and password.<\/li>\n<li>Spelling errors within the form.<\/li>\n<li>MSU will never request your email and password.<\/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 has an MSU faculty\/staff members name on the file. Email subjects and document attached seem legitimate. Why this is phishing? Email is coming from an external email address. The MSU faculty\/staff member&#8217;s name is in the notes section not the creator\/sender&#8217;s section. Email sends to a Google Doc that contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","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\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}