{"id":467,"date":"2025-03-27T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=467"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:01:52","slug":"virtual-personal-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/03\/27\/virtual-personal-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Personal Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/290\/2025\/03\/Personal-Assistant-Landing-502x1024.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Google Form attached to the Virtual Personal Assistant Phish\" width=\"386\" height=\"787\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email is coming from a compromised MSU account<\/li>\n<li>Email states it&#8217;s coming from a charity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Email has a vague greeting<\/li>\n<li>Email looks too good to be true<\/li>\n<li>Link is to a Google Form asking for personal information<\/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 a compromised MSU account Email states it&#8217;s coming from a charity Why this is phishing? Email has a vague greeting Email looks too good to be true Link is to a Google Form asking for personal information Additional Notes: Do you think you&#8217;ve fallen for a scam? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","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\/467","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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}