{"id":3329,"date":"2017-02-26T18:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:07:26","slug":"my-recent-experience-with-an-attempted-social-engineering-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/2017\/02\/26\/my-recent-experience-with-an-attempted-social-engineering-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"My recent experience with an attempted social engineering attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I received a phone call from this number: (570) – 524 – 2662. \u00a0If you do a quick Google Search you will find that it’s for a legitimate source, the State Police Department in Lewisburg or Milton, PA.<\/p>\n

The caller claimed to be an officer of the department and requested to speak to me. \u00a0So I obliged and asked him what it was about. \u00a0He claimed that they had receive several complaints about me and was calling to sort it out. \u00a0After asking him what the complaints were about, he was hesitant and said that he will forward me to the investigating officer to talk about the complaints.<\/p>\n

I immediately stopped him and told him to give me the direct line to the investigating officer so that I can call him directly. \u00a0The caller refused and told me to use the number that showed up on my caller id. I tried to get the identity of the caller but failed because he just told me to call the number back and he will be there to answer the call. \u00a0I hung up and did the quick Google Search of the phone number.<\/p>\n

There were several things wrong with this call:<\/p>\n

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  1. Why would the State Police from the middle of PA call someone in Philadelphia?<\/li>\n
  2. The caller had an Indian\/Middle Eastern accent<\/li>\n
  3. The caller did not want to provide me a number or his name.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I decided to call the number back, since it was a legitimate number, and got a hold of a “different” officer. \u00a0The officer assured me that he was the only there and nobody there was trying to get a hold of me. \u00a0I told him about the phone call that I just received and he was as surprised as I was.<\/p>\n

    Moral of the story is that anything can be spoofed and made to seem like it’s coming from a legitimate source. \u00a0Be careful who you divulge information to and should always ask for a callback number if you’re not the one who initiated the contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yesterday, I received a phone call from this number: (570) – 524 – 2662. \u00a0If you do a quick Google Search you will find that it’s for a legitimate source, the State Police Department in Lewisburg or Milton, PA. The caller claimed to be an officer of the department and requested to speak to me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715997],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-06-project-portfolio-management","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8j0Bl-RH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}