{"id":12702,"date":"2019-05-28T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/warning-increase-in-scam-phishing-emails-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:45:09","slug":"warning-increase-in-scam-phishing-emails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/warning-increase-in-scam-phishing-emails-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Increase in Scam\/Phishing Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT MESSAGE &#8211; PLEASE READ<br \/>\n<\/strong>This information is being provided to help you protect your personal information and reduce the chance of you becoming a victim of identity theft and possible\u00a0fraud.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase in the number of scam emails requesting students and employees to provide their HVCC username and password, along with other personal information.\u00a0<strong>Please be cautious\u00a0of any email that offers you employment links or directs you to a website that asks for your HVCC username and password outside of the hvcc.edu domain.<\/strong>\u00a0These emails are malicious\/fraudulent in nature and are a security threat.<\/p>\n<p>The latest email scam that was reported to ITS had the subject line <strong>\u201cHVCC: Urgent Part-Time(Flexible &amp; Rewarding) Job;\u201d <\/strong>content included \u201cYou can make up to $1000 weekly,\u201d and the signature line was \u201cJob Placement &amp; Student Services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have received the email listed above or suspect you have received an email that is potentially a scam<\/strong>, we strongly recommend that you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/its\/password-change.html\">change your password<\/a>\u00a0immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you have provided your HVCC username and password as a result of a request from an email, please change your password immediately,<\/strong> and forward the email\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:infosec@hvcc.edu\">infosec@hvcc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong>\u00a0HVCC will never direct you to a website that asks for your HVCC username and password outside of the hvcc.edu domain. If you are questioning the legitimacy of an email, please forward to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:infosec@hvcc.edu\">infosec@hvcc.edu<\/a>\u00a0for guidance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 28 May 2019 11:45:09 +0000 by\u00a0s.garrand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; IMPORTANT MESSAGE &#8211; PLEASE READ This information is being provided to help you protect your personal information and reduce&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}