{"id":1689,"date":"2009-01-13T22:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/13\/protect_your_online\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T22:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:37:33","slug":"protect_your_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/13\/protect_your_online\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Email title:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Messge[sic] from eBay&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Email body:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Dear eBay Member,<\/em><br \/>\n_This is your official notification from eBay. Your online has expired.<br \/>\nIf you want to continue using our service you have to renew your online.<br \/>\nIf not, your online will be limited and deleted.<br \/>\nTo confirm your Account records click on the following link:_<br \/>\n[link removed]<br \/>\n_Thank you,<br \/>\nScott R. Shipman, CIPP Senior Counsel, Global Privacy Practices eBay Inc.&#8221;_<br \/>\nHelp! Help! I don&#8217;t want eBay to limit and delete my online! I must respond forthwith to this very official looking email!<br \/>\nThe signature details seemed a little unusual for a phishing expedition, so I hit everyone&#8217;s favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7823387.stm\">agent of climate change<\/a>. Surprisingly, Scott Shipman really is the name of eBay&#8217;s Senior Counsel. Quite why eBay would need someone so senior to send out an automated message is, well, a further sign that this might be <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/ennis\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/best-virus-infected-email-ever\">another mildly inaccurate email notification<\/a>.<br \/>\nGoogling Scott Shipman sure does bring up a lot of sites telling you about phishing attacks! But he also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idtheftsummit.ca.gov\/bios.html\">makes an appearance<\/a> as a speaker at a Government of California identity theft summit, titled &#8220;Protecting Privacy Online&#8221;.<br \/>\nI find it rather amusing that, in an attempt to appear more official, this inept phisher inserted such a big red flag into his message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email title: &#8220;Messge[sic] from eBay&#8221; Email body: &#8220;Dear eBay Member, _This is your official notification from eBay. Your online has expired. If you want to continue using our service you have to renew your online. If not, your online will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/13\/protect_your_online\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}