{"id":653,"date":"2025-06-12T11:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/?p=653"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:16:07","slug":"apple-approval-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/2025\/06\/12\/apple-approval-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Approval Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why this looks valid:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple uses this format for text messages<\/li>\n<li>Has a real billing department link for Apple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why this is phishing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple does not typically send text messages to alert users of account issues or suspicious activity.<\/li>\n<li>Attacker is attempting to get users to call them to gather credit card information.<\/li>\n<li>The sender is usually an email address or a random telephone number not associated with Apple.\n<ul>\n<li>General Apple Support: <strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"35\" data-is-only-node=\"\">1\u2011800\u2011MY\u2011APPLE (1\u2011800\u2011692\u20117753)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apple Care Support: <strong>1\u2011800\u2011275\u20112273<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apple users are encouraged to forward suspicious texts or emails to Apple at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:reportphishing@apple.com\" class=\"multivariate\">reportphishing@apple.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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: Apple uses this format for text messages Has a real billing department link for Apple Why this is phishing? Apple does not typically send text messages to alert users of account issues or suspicious activity. Attacker is attempting to get users to call them to gather credit card information. The sender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/phish-files\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}