{"id":6361,"date":"2018-10-28T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T09:14:09","slug":"phishing-for-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/phishing-for-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing for Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a scam e-mail which centered on the following text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Your Apple lD has been blocked due to too many failed login attempts from other lP location. To unblock your account, Please contact Apple Help Desk at (800) 275-2273 or Click the button below and confirm that you are the valid account owner.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The return address was a nonsense string with no relation to Apple.<\/li>\n<li>The grammar issues in the paragraph above were another red flag.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the preview of the mail (what you see before you open it up) displayed an announcement about some &#8220;Grand Opening&#8221;, but this was not visible in the mail itself (and not at all related to the subject or body of the mail).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Hunting<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6361\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6361\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a scam e-mail which centered on the following text:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your Apple lD has been blocked due to too many failed login attempts from other lP location. To unblock your account, Please contact Apple Help Desk at (800) 275-2273 or Click the button below and confirm that you are the valid account owner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The return address was a nonsense string with no relation to Apple.<\/li>\n<li>The grammar issues in the paragraph above were another red flag.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the preview of the mail (what you see before you open it up) displayed an announcement about some &#8220;Grand Opening&#8221;, but this was not visible in the mail itself (and not at all related to the subject or body of the mail).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Hunting<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/phishing-for-apples\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}