{"id":541,"date":"2014-09-20T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T17:16:06","slug":"malicious-email-warning-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2014\/09\/20\/malicious-email-warning-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious email &#8212; warning signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;re careful when looking at your email inbox&#8217;s message list. You delete messages from strangers. You delete obvious promotions and ads. Yet, some messages appear okay. You open those messages. Here&#8217;re some things to check, as noted in a recent PC World &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2683898\/three-warning-signs-that-email-is-malicious.html\" title=\"PC World article page\" target=\"_blank\">Three warning signs that email is malicious<\/a>&#8221; article:<\/p>\n<p>1. Dear customer<br \/>\n2. That link is crazy<br \/>\n3. It has an attachment<\/p>\n<p>I see &#8220;Dear&#8221; spam every week. But checking any links in the body of a message is particularly important. While the text of a link may look valid, the actual link can be &#8220;crazy.&#8221; Lately I&#8217;ve seen quite a few <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TinyURL\" title=\"Info link\" target=\"_blank\">TinyURL<\/a>-style links in messages that cloak their malicious character. Just delete those messages!<\/p>\n<p>So stay alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you&#8217;re careful when looking at your email inbox&#8217;s message list. You delete messages from strangers. You delete obvious promotions and ads. Yet, some messages appear okay. You open those messages. Here&#8217;re some things to check, as noted in a recent PC World &#8220;Three warning signs that email is malicious&#8221; article: 1. Dear customer 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,33],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-phishing","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}