NO SPAM, PLEASE – Yahoo Mail Service Update Your Account
I received the following mail today purportedly from Yahoo Mail Services providing the link to update account.
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| Yahoo Account Update Phishing Scam |
This is kind of a phishing scam with the help of look-alike yahoo log-in page. Let’s see the mail below I received today, then we’ll jump to details:
From: Yahoo Mail Service (reply-service@yahoo.co.uk)
To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:30 AM
Subject: UPDATE NOW
===========================================To:
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:30 AM
Subject: UPDATE NOW
The link provided in the mail above will lead you to following page which apparently a genuine yahoo log-in page; but reviewing carefully it is discovered that there are few discrepancies.
First check out the fake yahoo log-in page:
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| Yahoo Account Update Phishing Scam: Look-alike Yahoo Log-in Page |
Now check out the original yahoo log-in page:
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| Original Yahoo Log-in Page |
Analyzing the URLs in the address bar one can find the difference very easily. The URL that leads to the look-alike yahoo log-in page is ..
while the URL of the original log-in page is totally different from it i.e.
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