{"id":517,"date":"2018-04-10T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=517"},"modified":"2018-04-10T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:54:56","slug":"the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"The Dots Do Matter: How to scam a Gmail user"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Posted by James Fisher on 4\/7\/18:<\/p>\n<p>I recently received an email from Netflix which nearly caused me to add my card details to someone else\u2019s Netflix account. Here I show that this is a new kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an obscure feature of Gmail called \u201cthe dots don\u2019t matter\u201d. I then argue that the dots do matter, and that this Gmail feature is in fact a misfeature. Finally I\u2019ll suggest some ways the Gmail team can combat such scams in future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jameshfisher.com\/2018\/04\/07\/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/jameshfisher.com\/2018\/04\/07\/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by James Fisher on 4\/7\/18: I recently received an email from Netflix which nearly caused me to add my card details to someone else\u2019s Netflix account. Here I show that this is a new kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an obscure feature of Gmail called \u201cthe dots don\u2019t matter\u201d. I then&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=517\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/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-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}