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Interesting new phishing attack doing the rounds

Written by Editor

Friday, 29 July 2005 17:06

It seems that the miscreants that perpetrate phishing attacks have decided to change their usual MO for trying to get users to part with their login details. This attack seems to be playing on ‘greed’ well sort of. The usual attacks are an email to tell you that some security breach has occurred and that ‘insert company name’ needs you login an re-confirm all your details. Then your directed to a fake site where you enter all your information to then find that the your account is ransacked by the criminals.

This attack is being targeted a Paypal users and is quite simple. You get a mail that looks identical to the standard paypal payment receipt email, this email indicates you have received some trivial amount of money from someone. The amounts can vary however a common value seems to be $12 or £12, and you should claim your money in the usual manner. So you click on the link in the email and then are directed to a fake site which looks just like the normal paypal site, you are asked for your username and password and you attempt to log in and well the rest is history.

Our advice to you would be that if your not expecting a paypal payment check the email carefully then if you need to log into paypal do not use any links in the email, go directly to www.paypal.com and log in there and check your balance. After all what may seem like free money could cost you a lot more.

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 September 2006 21:52 )