Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive
information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and
sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in
an electronic communication.
Attached email is a phish I received today on my gmail inbox from my doctor -
I called the doctor's office to inform about the spam, they told me his account was hacked.
I called the doctor's office to inform about the spam, they told me his account was hacked.
I tried to look up related articles- found a couple and believe they are related-
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2014/
http://www.symantec.com/
According to the blogs, upon clicking the link it takes us to a fake google signin link that is hosted on Google and has SSL. Users who enter their information and “Sign in” are redirected to an actual Google Doc containing irrelevant information. At the same time, and in the background, the user’s Google log-in credentials are sent to the scammer’s web server.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2014/
http://www.symantec.com/
According to the blogs, upon clicking the link it takes us to a fake google signin link that is hosted on Google and has SSL. Users who enter their information and “Sign in” are redirected to an actual Google Doc containing irrelevant information. At the same time, and in the background, the user’s Google log-in credentials are sent to the scammer’s web server.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: FirstName LastName
Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:41 PM
Subject: Report
To:
I tried to contact you yesterday but didn't get a reply. You need to see this report, I uploaded it using google drive because I'm having problems with attachments.
https (colon) // googledrive (dot) com / host / 0B16U6o6sGxNieWpIakN5eC1NaXc / index (dot) htm
Please check and get back to me this is very important.
[His entire signature including his addresses, email, phone, fax, etc was in here]
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