{"id":72445,"date":"2011-09-20T13:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72445"},"modified":"2011-09-20T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T13:23:15","slug":"visa-and-mastercard-scam-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/visa-and-mastercard-scam-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"VISA and MasterCard Scam \u2013 Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I want to inform you about another scam that was brought to my notice. This one involves Visa and MasterCard credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>There is a fake email doing the rounds and it carries a panicky subject line &#8211; &#8220;Important Notice to all Debit Card Users&#8221;. It also has an attached .html file. The mail instructs users to download the attached file and fill it up for the purpose of security updates for their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Once executed, the downloaded file looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Visaphish-attachedCustom.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is just a replica of the original page which is getting executed from your machine. As soon as you click on &#8220;Update your Account&#8221; it will redirect you to the following phishing link with online forms to fill:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Visaphish-2Custom.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After clicking on the &#8216;Complete&#8217; tab, it will prompt you as below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Visaphish-3Custom.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you click on the OK tab, it will take you to the genuine website of VISA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Visaphish-genuieneCustom.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will convince users that everything is fine. But in reality, all the confidential data of the user gets transferred to the attacker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Visaphish-anaCustom.PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/\">Quick Heal<\/a> detects such fraudulent emails, malicious attachments and protects its users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I want to inform you about another scam that was brought to my notice. This one involves Visa and MasterCard credit cards. There is a fake email doing the rounds and it carries a panicky subject line &#8211; &#8220;Important Notice to all Debit Card Users&#8221;. It also has an attached .html file. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[22,23,44,25],"class_list":["post-72445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-malware","tag-email-malware","tag-fraudulent-email","tag-online-survey","tag-phishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}