{"id":376,"date":"2025-02-20T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=376"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:29:44","slug":"final-reminder-account-validation-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/02\/20\/final-reminder-account-validation-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Reminder Account Validation Required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-20-130203-497x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Google Form that was created to steal login credentials posing as Microsoft365.\" width=\"497\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\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 contains a typo, &#8220;Fwd::&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Email is vague and gives no next steps.<\/li>\n<li>MSU will never request your personal information including passwords and MFA codes.<\/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 is phishing? Email is not coming from an official MSU email address. Subject contains a typo, &#8220;Fwd::&#8221;. Email is vague and gives no next steps. MSU will never request your personal information including passwords and MFA codes. Additional Notes: Do you think you&#8217;ve fallen for a scam? Did you share personal information? Downloaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","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\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}