{"id":44,"date":"2008-02-13T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluej.org\/mrt\/?p=44"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:46:25","slug":"stupidity-or-just-refreshing-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2008\/02\/13\/stupidity-or-just-refreshing-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidity or just refreshing honesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as everyone else, I regularly get spam. One of the common scams are &#8220;phishing&#8221; mails &#8211; pretending to be from a bank or other institution where you might type in your password.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I got one that appeared to be from the NatWest bank. With this one, the scammers actually had a better starting point with me than most, since I actually do have an account at that bank (so it&#8217;s not quite as obvious as being asked to update my details at some bank in Timbuktu that I&#8217;ve never heard of).<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think the scammers quite thought this through to the end, as you might notice looking at the URL that the &#8220;Log in&#8221; button links to &#8211; stupidity or just refreshing honesty?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/192\/files\/2008\/02\/scam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-775\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/192\/files\/2008\/02\/scam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/files\/2008\/02\/scam.png 723w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/files\/2008\/02\/scam-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/files\/2008\/02\/scam-496x300.png 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as everyone else, I regularly get spam. One of the common scams are &#8220;phishing&#8221; mails &#8211; pretending to be from a bank or other institution where you might type in your password. Today, I got one that appeared to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2008\/02\/13\/stupidity-or-just-refreshing-honesty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}