{"id":403,"date":"2025-03-08T23:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T04:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=403"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:41:40","slug":"your-montclair-id-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/03\/08\/your-montclair-id-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Montclair ID Halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/03\/Your-ID-1024x269.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a fake website posing to be a MSU login page.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Attacker makes the alias of the email say Montclair<\/li>\n<li>Attacker uses a legitimate telephone number at MSU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email address is from an external account not associated with MSU<\/li>\n<li>Email Subject changes:\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;ve halt your Montclair ID<\/li>\n<li>Your Montclair ID Halted<\/li>\n<li>Your MontcIair ID halted\u00a0 &lt; Montclair is spelt with an uppercase i<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ll close your Montclair ID<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Link is fake and reroutes to a different website<\/li>\n<li>Spelling errors<\/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: Attacker makes the alias of the email say Montclair Attacker uses a legitimate telephone number at MSU Why this is phishing? Email address is from an external account not associated with MSU Email Subject changes: We&#8217;ve halt your Montclair ID Your Montclair ID Halted Your MontcIair ID halted\u00a0 &lt; Montclair is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spear-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}