{"id":458,"date":"2016-01-28T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/would-you-open-this\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:55:07","slug":"would-you-open-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/would-you-open-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you open this ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/img_1467.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium\" title=\"Danger Will Robinson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emaren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/img_1467.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>This is an email that I received from fitness for less a couple of days ago. My immediate response was that this was a very poor phishing attempt that probably used a PDF vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Curiousity got the better of me though, because I remember getting an emai form the gym last year about an extra payment that was for &#8216;gym improvements&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I cloned and then fired up a virtual machine that was pretty much disposable \u00c2\u00a0and forwarded the email to it.<\/p>\n<p>The pdf was a legitimate one. They were informing me that they are taking a couple of extra \u00a3\u00a3&#8217;s this month.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of things wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>The email checked pretty much every known box when looking for suspicious emails.<\/p>\n<p>Fitness for less know my name, yet nothing was personalised.<\/p>\n<p>The email contained nothing at all of value, if you wanted to find out the details you have to open the PDF.<\/p>\n<p>The phraseology feels awkward.<\/p>\n<p>So I replied to the email . I explained that I was not going to open the pdf. I told them that it looked like spam and a very amateurish phishing attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly they just sent me a wall of copy pasted text explaining that they had invested \u00a3100k in the website And the payment that they are taking would do towards that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame that they did not spend a few \u00a3\u00a3s on a decent CRM system that was capable of spitting out personalise emails.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many people disregarded the email and are now wondering why their bank account is a little short ??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an email that I received from fitness for less a couple of days ago. My immediate response was that this was a very poor phishing attempt that probably used a PDF vulnerability. Curiousity got the better of me though, because I remember getting an emai form the gym last year about an extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nealon.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}