MoMusings

Tuesday 31st October, 2006


An Orange Phish, not a Gold One

Filed under: All, Scams

Orange, a rather large UK mobile phone operator, are running a promotion and offering £20 [UK Pounds] of free credit if you use their new e-topup service….or so the following e-mail [screenshot below] which arrived in my e-mail box the other day would have me believe.

If an ‘Orange’ customer clicks on the link in the e-mail, they will see the following page in their browser:

A larger version of the above screenshot can be found here.

Yes, the bad guys and girls are changing tactics again. In this case it is a phish which is targeting one of the big mobile phone operators in the UK, more accurately, they are targeting their customers.

The phishing e-mail appears to be a typical one except that it is targeting ‘Orange’ customers instead of the usual bank, building society, ISP, Paypal or eBay ones that are the more normal phish food.

As you can see, apart from the usual data, such as name address, etc. They also want your credit card details, including the CVV!

So, heads-up everyone as it looks like we will be seeing more unusual phish in the future.

Anyway, I have other ‘phish to phry‘, back later! ;-)


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