{"id":5681,"date":"2017-03-10T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2017-09-29T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:06:41","slug":"e-mail-security-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/e-mail-security-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"E-mail Security Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a lot of e-mail messages have started circulating, which appear to be sent by a familiar name; a colleague, student, teacher, or the university administration.<\/p>\n<p>They are actually spoofing the display name of an email, with a non-Bilkent full email address.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works: if a fraudster wanted to spoof John Doe, whose real e-mail address is doe@bilkent.edu.tr, the email sender may look something like:<\/p>\n<p>From: John Doe<\/p>\n<p>This fraudulent email, once delivered, appears legitimate because most user inboxes only display the display name (just full name).<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t trust the display names.<\/p>\n<p>Check the email address in the header which is enclosed with characters.<\/p>\n<p>The From header in a genuine e-mail from a Bilkent account would look like:<\/p>\n<p>From: John Doe &lt;<a href=\"mailto:jdoe@bilkent.edu.tr\">jdoe@bilkent.edu.tr<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>These phishing schemes are attempts to steal your personal information.<\/p>\n<p>Please<\/p>\n<p>-Do not send a user ID or password in an email.<br \/>\n-Do not respond to emails threatening to close your account if you do not confirm some credentials.<br \/>\n-Do not click links in suspicious email messages<\/p>\n<p>If you have responded to a phishing scheme by submitting information about your account, password; you should immediately change your password.<\/p>\n<p>BCC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a lot of e-mail messages have started circulating, which appear to be sent by a familiar name; a colleague, student, teacher, or the university administration. They are actually spoofing the display name of an email, with a non-Bilkent full email address. Here&#8217;s how it works: if a fraudster wanted [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/e-mail-security-advice\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}