What do you do when you receive an email from an
online financial company that you regularly deal with,
informing you about the completion of a transaction
that you never did in the first place? There's a good
chance you might lose your senses for a short while.
That's exactly what people behind this new Phishing
scam targeting eBay customers are hoping for!
The advanced AntiVirus, AntiSpam and Content Security
solution provider MicroWorld Technologies says a new
email in circulation tries to pilfer confidential
account information of eBay customers by sending them
a tricky phishing mail. Appearing as a routine conformation
message from eBay, it tells the recipient that she
has sent $249.20 to an email address at aol.com.
Then it shows a Transaction ID and Subject to numb
the unsuspecting victim. To view the details of the
transaction, she is told to click on a link. It ends
with a 'thank you for using eBay' line, deliberately
used to aggravate the user. Once she clicks on the
'view details' link, a new page opens up where her
account information will be captured by online criminals
behind the scam.
"At the end of the day, a phisher's goal is
to make you visit the spoof website of any reputable
organization, and they will try every trick in the
trade to achieve this end," observes Sunil Kripalani,
Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, MicroWorld
Technologies. "With so much awareness being spread
by various agencies and considerable coverage in mainstream
media, one would tend to think that it's hard to fool
people in this fashion any more. But the facts tell
you a different story."
According to Sunil, Phishing scams still manage to
loot millions out of people's bank and other accounts
every year, while the far reaching impact of loss
of personal information like Social Security Number,
Date of Birth and Mother' Maiden Name goes largely
unnoticed by many.
"The most disturbing trend in Phishing in recent
times is the rise of Man-in the-Middle Attacks which
enable an online criminal to sit live between the
spoof site and the original, and manipulate the stolen
data to his advantage in real time. It means a few
seconds after the criminal gets the data from the
Phishing site, he loots the victims account. With
customizable kits available in the online grey market,
even a not-so tech savvy guy can run such an attack,"
explains Sunil.
MicroWorld Technologies provides highly advanced
protection for their users from Phishing mails and
other spam mails by employing a multi-layered email
filtering mechanism. Its eScan and MailScan range
of products are used by over a million customers worldwide
in safeguarding their computers.
*Phishing: Identity Theft using spoofed emails
MicroWorld
MicroWorld Technologies (www.mwti.net)
is the developer of the world's most advanced AntiVirus,
Content Security and Firewall software eScan,
MailScan,
and eConceal.
MicroWorld
Winsock Layer (MWL) is the revolutionary technology
that powers most of MicroWorld products enabling them
to achieve several certifications and awards by some
of the most prestigious testing bodies, notable among
them being Virus Bulletin, Checkmark, TUCOWS, Red
Hat Ready and Novell Ready.
To learn more, kindly visit http://www.mwti.net.
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