Phishing by Phone
I have covered phishing in depth in a number of postings to this blog. Usually I now only cover phishing scams when something new or interesting surfaces, and so it is with this post.
Yes, the bad guys and girls are changing tactics again. In this case it is a hybridised phish, more details below after the screenshot:
A larger version of the above screenshot can be found here.
The phishing e-mail appears to be a typical one targeting PayPal users, however that is where the similarity ends. Did you notice that there was no link or button to click on?
The new part of this phish is that it tries to get the recipient to call a telephone number in the US. I have no idea at this time where that number is pointed to or whether it is a ‘premium-rate’ number [I expect it isn’t], however I do expect that there are people or an automated system sitting at the other end pretending to represent PayPal so that they can steal account details.
If anyone has more data that they can supply on the number, then please drop me a line.
So, heads-up everyone as it looks like we will be seeing more hybridised phish in the future. I was really starting to hope that the phishers had had their chips, oh well maybe some day?
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