Posts Tagged ‘webmail’

Today’s mail brought this clumsy phishing attempt aimed at hijacking your webmail account (any webmail account you happen to have, for which you provide the scammer with your username, password, etc).

NO legitimate webmail service will ever ask you to provide this information!

Instead, they’ll ask you to log into your account in the usual way. Even then, be wary of any log-in link provided in an email request.

Here’s a variation on the “Please view my resume” and “Amazon shipping label” scam I just received (again): it’s a message, claiming to be from my webmail provider (absolute proof that it’s a scam in my case, because I’m the webmail provider!) requiring me to re-validate my — unspecified — account by opening the attachment.

Yeah… right.

In this case, it’s a straight phishing scam aimed at stealing your identity and your webmail account, wherever you have that webmail account (your workplace, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc).

The usual stuff still applies: poor English, literal spelling and really obvious grammatical mistakes, etc.

Here’s an example of the spam message:

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