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  • Phishing via Yahoo Messenger

    Posted by Paulus T on Dec 10th, 2007
    2007
    Dec 10

    I know that I promise to write about scam at my last post in this category. But today a phishing message appear in my Yahoo Messenger, and I feel I must write about this one too.

    The message were came from one of my contact. You can see the message at picture below.

    Yahoo Phishing 00
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    I know this is phishing, but I must click the link provided in the message to show you the phishing process. So after I clicked the link, my browser open me this page.

    Yahoo Phishing 01
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    As you can see in the address bar, it show page from geocities.com which is a free web hosting service provider. And I try to view the page source, and then find the word “action” as this is part of the tag <form> which have the text input inside it.

    Yahoo Phishing 02
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    We can see there is an input that have value “goldz.love@yahoo.com” this is the email address of the man behind this phishing. And because this email using yahoo service, I then report this phishing page using yahoo phishing report at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/forms/phishing.html

    Note: You might try the page address shown in the first picture, but never ever enter anything to the form.

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