{"id":1059,"date":"2018-10-17T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2024-04-16T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:45:18","slug":"awaiting-your-reply-phishing-scam-october-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/awaiting-your-reply-phishing-scam-october-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAWAITING YOUR REPLY\u201d \u2013 Phishing Scam \u2013 October 17, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Below is the most recent phishing email and website we have seen. \u00a0Similar to past emails, this scam attempts to trick users into entering personal account information (e.g. username\/password). Users should not click any links in this email and should delete it right away. As a reminder, Loyola will never ask for your password or to verify your account.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this or any email, before you act on the email, please call or email the ITS Helpdesk 773-508-4487, helpdesk@luc.edu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>From:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Date:<\/b>\u00a0October 17, 2018 at 11:47:16 AM CDT<br \/>\n<b>To:<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Subject:<\/b>\u00a0<b>AWAITING YOUR REPLY.<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Reply-To:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Email [-],<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s Treasury Department receives over \u040810bn<br \/>\nevery year from unclaimed estates; forgotten funds; abandoned<br \/>\nshares and dormant accounts.This letter is a final warning notice<br \/>\nregarding the death of my Late client Edward, wife and only<br \/>\ndaughter while on holiday at Louisiana USA in the August 2005<br \/>\nAtlantic hurricane Katrina disaster. According to the laws of<br \/>\nEngland and Wales, section 46 of the Administration of Estates<br \/>\nAct of 1925 (with subsequent amendments). My late client&#8217;s bank<br \/>\nhas issued me a Final written notice to provide his next-of-kin<br \/>\nwithin 7 days or have his funds declared UNCLAIMED and sent into<br \/>\ngovernment treasury.<\/p>\n<p>I have been in charge of managing his properties here in London<br \/>\nfor a long time. There were some of his properties put out for<br \/>\nsale before his death,for which payment has since been made. The<br \/>\nproceeds of the sale is deposited into his local account here. I<br \/>\nfound your name in some of his documents and that is why I traced<br \/>\nyour email through an advanced search.<\/p>\n<p>I am contacting you because you bear the same last-name with my<br \/>\nlate client.I want to know if you are in anyway related to my<br \/>\nlate client.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the most recent phishing email and website we have seen. \u00a0Similar to past emails, this scam attempts to trick users into entering personal account information (e.g. username\/password). Users should not click any links in this email and should delete it right away. As a reminder, Loyola will never ask for your password or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page","category-phishing","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/uiso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}