{"id":513,"date":"2021-11-05T13:33:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?p=513"},"modified":"2021-11-11T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:49:02","slug":"fedex-phishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/fedex-phishes\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx Phishes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Be on the lookout for holiday phishing scams. A current scam includes recently-created, funky-looking domains that look very similar to that of FedEx, for example, \u201co001cfedeex [.] com\u201d instead of fedex.com, impersonating failed deliveries. See the examples below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedexscam-4.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"521\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedexscam-4.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?attachment_id=521\" class=\"wp-image-521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedexscam-4.png 400w, https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedexscam-4-184x300.png 184w, https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedexscam-4-92x150.png 92w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedex-update-1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"520\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedex-update-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?attachment_id=520\" class=\"wp-image-520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedex-update-1.png 400w, https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedex-update-1-164x300.png 164w, https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/11\/fedex-update-1-82x150.png 82w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you receive one, ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Am I expecting a package?<\/li><li>Is it normal to pay an additional fee?<\/li><li>Does FedEx need by social security number?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a best practice to check the actual source website for your order information, especially when a message is suspicious, rather than clicking embedded links or downloading\/opening attachments. <strong>Do not respond and do not give your personal information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forward suspicious emails to infosec@wfu.edu, and the InfoSec team will investigate the email and can help you decide if it is indeed a scam.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/security-essentials\/\">Security Essentials<\/a><strong> to learn more about keeping yourself safe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be on the lookout for holiday phishing scams. A current scam includes recently-created, funky-looking domains, that look very similar to that of FedEx, impersonating failed deliveries.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[11,16,13,12,6,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}