{"id":36260,"date":"2026-04-25T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36260"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:38:48","slug":"epc-phishing-emails-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/?p=36260","title":{"rendered":"EPC Phishing Emails &#8211; Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s just come to our attention that some E-Rate applicants have received emails that appear to be a phishing attempt.\u00a0The email has a subject line of \u201cService Provider Document, E-Rate Productivity Center\u201d and is from the domain \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/usac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">usac.com<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0Legitimate emails from USAC come from the domain \u201cusac.org\u201d. In the email body, you will see a link to click to &#8220;View Secure Message&#8221;. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a snapshot of what was received (it&#8217;s also attached to my email in case the screenshot doesn&#8217;t display):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=ca3308b94a&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1863300058519224852&amp;th=19dbc587f200c214&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1863300058519224852&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9G1kQOtb-4K077_CpH4ZvCFRPjvNE7oiwCYpxmL0k8hGoe60EDbMiccaQ2q_TAMtmkQZ-_j13nG4d7sFd5g-UQYj969LhQfbnesKbBPAowEq7MC1kQGdD1tP8&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_mobxw9820&amp;zw\" alt=\"image.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>USAC has been notified, but in the meantime, beware!!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please let me know if you have any questions or if you receive any such email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorrie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Lorrie Germann<\/em><\/strong><br>Pennsylvania E-Rate Coordinator<br>717-576-2737 &#8211; o<br>lgermann@e-ratepa.org<br>www.e-ratepa.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=eratepenn\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 23, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listserve_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-ratepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}