Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Email Account Closure Warning - Another Trap for Identity Theft

We have observed another scam which is intended to theft your identity by claiming themselves as your email service provider like Yahoo or Gmail. See the following scam messages:
Message 1:






Dear Account User,

We require you to verify your Google account as we are about to close down some unused emails registered under Gmail, which are causing our system to malfunction due to none usage of these emails.
To avoid Email closure.

please follow the link below to keep your account safe.

Sign-in Verification.

This is to improve our service quality. We are sorry for inconveniences 
Case number: 894162450 
Property: Account Security
Copyright 2014 Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. 


Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to

your use of Google Inc., Mail.
Message 2:
Dear Customer,   
We have send you this message before it was deleted by fruadsters from an unknown ip address which was hidden from our security, it as come to our notice that your account have bein accessing from different location and it as being breaking our security question in your yahoo account if you are not  the customer that is breaking our security details we advise you to update your account now and be safe, if fail to update your account security we shall shut-down your account in the next 24hrs last warning,
We recommend that you Please download the attachment and open it and logging your account again and we shall help you to  keep your account safe from them and we shall deny any access to your account from any unknow ip address. 

update your account. and  avoid the shut-down.

Thank You.
Yahoo Inc

Attached file: Yahoo Security Update.html


Message 3:
Hi ,
Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google account on.

Wednesday, 21 Jan, 2015 10:19 AM GMT
IP Address: 37.55.36.224
Location: Ukraine (UA)
If you do not verify your account, you stand the risk of losing your account
permanently.
Follow the Below button to keep your account safe.
Please click the Below button to keep your account safe.

Continue with Verification
© 2014 Gmail Inc. All Rights Reserved.
2563 Amphitheatre Way San Francisco, CA 908764
© G00GLE INC 2014
Needless to say, this type of email does not at all sent from Google or Yahoo. If you click on so called "Sign-in Verification" Link or download the attachment, your identity will be hacked.

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