{"id":1852,"date":"2009-12-26T07:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2012-04-05T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:31:03","slug":"fake-facebook-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/fake-facebook-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Facebook Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width:400px; height:200px; overflow:hidden; text-align:center; margin:1em auto 0; border:1px dotted red; padding:0\">\n<a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pseudo-facebook-email.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pseudo-facebook-email.jpg\" alt=\"Fake Facebook Email\" style=\"margin-left:-241px; margin-top:-5px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>It is not legit.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s spam, and likely of the bad kind.<\/p>\n<p>Do not click any links in it.<\/p>\n<p>In the image above, I made two clues be red font:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That first email address doesn&#8217;t look real persuasive as a corporate address, does it now?\n<li>That second email address ain&#8217;t me.<\/ul>\n<p>The third clue &#8212; the most important of all, really &#8212; lies in the links contained in the email.<\/p>\n<p>Notice what shows up in the browser status bar (is that what it&#8217;s called down below?) when I put my cursor on one of the links:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:400px; height:18px; overflow:hidden; text-align:center; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dotted red; padding:0\">\n<a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pseudo-facebook-email.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/pseudo-facebook-email.jpg\" alt=\"Fake Facebook Email\" style=\"margin-top:-522px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Again, notice the red part. If you only read the first part of the URL, it looks like the link points to facebook.com &#8212; but you must keep reading till you get to the first forward slash. Then you&#8217;ll see the link doesn&#8217;t point to facebook.com at all.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t know that yet regarding links, learn the lesson and remember it well!<\/p>\n<p>PS: Thanks to the wonders of CSS, the above images are actually the same image. Click on either image above to see the full thing.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not legit. It&#8217;s spam, and likely of the bad kind. Do not click any links in it. In the image above, I made two clues be red font: That first email address doesn&#8217;t look real persuasive as a corporate address, does it now? That second email address ain&#8217;t me. The third clue &#8212; &#8230; <a title=\"Fake Facebook Email\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/fake-facebook-email\/\" aria-label=\"More on Fake Facebook Email\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[859,121,424],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","category-youve-been-warned","tag-email","tag-facebook","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-tS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}