{"id":276,"date":"2025-12-05T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:01:42","slug":"journal-entry-6-spoof-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/2025\/12\/05\/journal-entry-6-spoof-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal Entry 6 &#8211; Spoof Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b1776c1277e4a63929d2971ca3fb9a5a\" style=\"background-color:#788c79\">In the first example I used I found that a fake website can have an unfamiliar UI while using the name of a different widely used company to bait in users with a familiar name. The second example I used I found that &#8220;spoof&#8221; sites will have a very similar UI to other popular or familiar sites. These sites can be identified by checking their URL. The third example I used I found that links from emails might contain an html that baits for account information. Banks use html attachments frequently so it tricks users into clicking the link and entering their account info. The best way to check if these are malicious is to call the bank directly and check the email sender.<br>Sources:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/how-recognize-avoid-phishing-scams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/how-recognize-avoid-phishing-scams?utm_source=chatgpt.comLinks to an external site.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phishing.org\/phishing-examples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.phishing.org\/phishing-exampleLinks to an external site.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39651\/2025\/12\/Website-Spoofing-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first example I used I found that a fake website can have an unfamiliar UI while using the name of a different widely used company to bait in users with a familiar name. The second example I used I found that &#8220;spoof&#8221; sites will have a very similar UI to other popular or&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/2025\/12\/05\/journal-entry-6-spoof-sites\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":1},"categories":[4],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eportfo-mha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}