{"id":7764,"date":"2018-02-27T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2018-02-27T00:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T08:08:58","slug":"sloppy-equifax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/sloppy-equifax\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy Equifax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this letter to Equifax today:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got an email from \u00a0TrustedID Customer Service &lt;no-reply@trustedid.com&gt; today. In it there was a sure sign of a phishing attack, only it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It reads like so:<\/div>\n<div>Subject: \u00a0New Credit Monitoring Alert<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ve noticed a change on your credit report, and we encourage you to log in to your account to view details at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click.e.equifax.com\/?qs=b15633469f19102d16e3c403ede59c8a[redacted]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.trustedid.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Notice that the text reads &#8220;www.trustedid.com&#8221; but the link behind it reads &#8220;http:\/\/click.e.equifax.com\/?qs=b15633469f1&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t do that shit. There is arguably only one key bit of protected information on the internet, domain names. Customers should only ever click on matched text and links. If you get customers used to clicking mismatched text and links, you get them used to being scammed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please write back and tell me you&#8217;ll fix this type of error in your emails.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you,<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lee Sonko<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this letter to Equifax today: &nbsp; I got an email from \u00a0TrustedID Customer Service &lt;no-reply@trustedid.com&gt; today. In it there was a sure sign of a phishing attack, only it wasn&#8217;t. It reads like so: Subject: \u00a0New Credit Monitoring Alert &#8230; We&#8217;ve noticed a change on your credit report, and we encourage you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}