{"id":538,"date":"2021-11-11T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/?p=538"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:03:38","slug":"bank-fraud-sms-phish-followed-by-phone-phish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/bank-fraud-sms-phish-followed-by-phone-phish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Fraud SMS Phish Followed by Phone Phish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SMS phishing, known as &#8220;smishing,&#8221; usually includes a link to a site that spoofs a popular bank to try and gather personal information. A recent smish (pictured above) involves an attempt to get users to confirm a payment. Once a user responds, it is followed up by a phone call from the hacker mimicking the fraud department of that bank. The hackers have been known to ask for information to confirm the respondent&#8217;s identity.  These hackers can then use the phished information to set up new financial accounts in the victim&#8217;s name, which can be used to transfer stolen funds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do not be a phishing victim! <strong>When in doubt, hang up, look up the number of the organization supposedly calling you, and call back. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be alert for fraudulent SMS messages asking users to confirm a payment, followed up by a phone call from the hackers mimicking the fraud department of that bank. <\/p>\n<p>When in doubt, hang up, look up the number of the organization supposedly calling you, and call back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[19,17,18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.is.wfu.edu\/infosec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}