{"id":11090,"date":"2016-07-08T09:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T07:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T06:41:05","slug":"new-spam-e-mail-distributed-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2016\/07\/new-spam-e-mail-distributed-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]New spam e-mail distributed on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

[:en]<\/p>\n

New spam e-mail distributed on campus asking you to validate your account, otherwise it will be deleted. Please ignore and delete this. IT will never ask you to validate your account in this way.<\/p>\n

Also take note that the contact details are incorrect, the e-mail is vaguely addressed to “Dear Student\/Member” and not personalised\u00a0and there’s no reference to IT itself. All our e-mails are sent on a specific template and in both languages.<\/p>\n

If in doubt, rather call us at x4367 to check if an e-mail is legitimate.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

——– Original message ——–
From: “Espina, Juliette” <jae16c@my.fsu.edu>
Date:06\/07\/2016 12:38 (GMT+02:00)
To:
Cc:
Subject: NOTICE<\/p>\n

Dear Student\/Member,<\/p>\n

Please note that we are canceling unused sun.ac.za email account to create more space for new accounts.<\/p>\n

Kindly follow the link below to validate your account:\u00a0<\/p>\n

http:\/\/bit.ly\/2925RgV<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p>\n

Support Team.<\/p>\n

Administration B building,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victoria Street, Stellenbosch<\/p>\n

18\u00b0 51′ 47.536″ East 33\u00b0 56′ 1.327″<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[:en] New spam e-mail distributed on campus asking you to validate your account, otherwise it will be deleted. Please ignore and delete this. IT will never ask you to validate your account in this way. Also take note that the contact details are incorrect, the e-mail is vaguely addressed to “Dear Student\/Member” and not personalised\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20382,29187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-security-2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 19:09:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions\/11091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}