{"id":366,"date":"2025-02-19T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=366"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:34:42","slug":"366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/02\/19\/366\/","title":{"rendered":"Your NetID is on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email says it&#8217;s coming from MSU.<\/li>\n<li>Attacker utilizes legitimate information in some cases such as IT Service Desk phone number.<\/li>\n<li>Uses the correct MSU link in the body of the email.<\/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>Subject(s) are vague and change:\n<ul>\n<li>NetID on Hold<\/li>\n<li>Hold on your NetID<\/li>\n<li>Your ID on Hold<\/li>\n<li>Hold has been applied to your NetID<\/li>\n<li>Your MSU ID on hold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From is Montclair spelt with an uppercase i instead of L.<\/li>\n<li>False information: Some of the emails received had a different phone number.<\/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 says it&#8217;s coming from MSU. Attacker utilizes legitimate information in some cases such as IT Service Desk phone number. Uses the correct MSU link in the body of the email. Why this is phishing? Email is not coming from an official MSU email address. Subject(s) are vague and change: NetID [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","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\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}