{"id":64235,"date":"2020-02-06T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=64235"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:32","slug":"phishing-email-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/phishing-email-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Email\/Scam \u2013 Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Phishing Email\/Scam \u2013 Coronavirus\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><em>Visit ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/\">COVID-19 website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please beware of phishing email scams, which appear to be from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or other health officials and are about the Coronavirus. The messages may suggest clicking on a link or to download a document or report, or to respond for more information. These emails should be deleted immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refer to the Spam email claiming to be from CDC for a sample of this type of phishing campaign:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020.png\" alt=\"Scam email from the CDC\" class=\"wp-image-64236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020.png 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020-400x164.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020-768x315.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020-700x287.png 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/162\/cdc_disease-control-scam-jan-2020-200x82.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´\u2019s COVID-19 website. Please beware of phishing email scams, which appear to be from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or other health officials and are about the Coronavirus. The messages may suggest clicking on a link or to download a document or report, or to respond for more information. These emails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":59985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1632],"tags":[1633],"class_list":["post-64235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64584,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64235\/revisions\/64584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}