{"id":66,"date":"2018-01-29T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-05-12T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T20:12:41","slug":"beware-email-scams-and-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Beware email scams and phishing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/#\/home\/url\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-68\" src=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-29-at-4.36.10-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virus Total<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seems someone was using my domain name (not my domain server, that is hosted by InMotion and my WordPress is updated regularly) to spam a phishing URL (it was someone named Les at Performance Sales that sent me the email&#8230;but I couldn&#8217;t verify it that was a spammer trying to use my domain&#8230;since the contact phone number was Illinois but fax number was in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>And his website of &#8220;performancesales dot com&#8221; was some marketing site for &#8230; well his phone and info didn&#8217;t match their site so I decided not to reply. If it is legit, maybe Les will visit here and read this.<\/p>\n<p>The link sent was clearly deceptive&#8230; a space was between the www in is was ww w.macanix.com. This was also a doc file name but no attachment. Another clue, hover over the URL and its nothing as it appears. I copied that, and pasted into virustotal.com URL checker and bingo, malicious.<\/p>\n<p>(I won&#8217;t post the malicious URL but it goes to a walstinefa domain which is 403-forbidden.)<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t sure of a URL sent to you, Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virustotal.com\/#\/home\/url\"><strong>virus total<\/strong><\/a> and paste it in.<\/p>\n<p>Also, whether on a mac or windows, always use some antimalware. I recommend purchasing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/\">Malwarebytes Antimalware.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems someone was using my domain name (not my domain server, that is hosted by InMotion and my WordPress is updated regularly) to spam a phishing URL (it was someone named Les at Performance Sales that sent me the email&#8230;but I couldn&#8217;t verify it that was a spammer trying to use my domain&#8230;since the contact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/macanix.com\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware email scams and phishing!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macanix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}