{"id":74489,"date":"2012-06-28T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=74489"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:56:17","slug":"phishing-scam-axis-bank-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/phishing-scam-axis-bank-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Scam: Axis Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing scams are commonly carried out with specially crafted emails which look a lot like legitimate ones. Anybody who is new to the Internet can be easily tricked by a sophisticated phishing scam that attempts to get valuable information. Scammers send bulk emails to random email addresses in their possession. Typically, the message will appear to have come from a bank or financial institution. I came across one such email that pretends to be from Axis bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/phisp_axis_mail100-Custom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74491\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/phisp_axis_mail100-Custom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The email misguides users by saying that \u201cYour account generated an error in our new security system and to fix it click on the <strong>Resolve this problem<\/strong> tab given below. If the user clicks on it, he gets redirected to <em>hxxp:\/\/shuttleservicenewjersey.com\/libraries\/domit\/theme\/ indexx.html<\/em> and is asked to secure his account by providing his login ID and the password. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/phisp_axis_2-Custom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74490\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/phisp_axis_2-Custom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fraudulent page holds a close resemblance to the genuine Axis bank login page. So anyone can get tricked easily if he\/she does not verify the URL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/\">Quick Heal<\/a> detects and blocks such phishing pages and protects its users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing scams are commonly carried out with specially crafted emails which look a lot like legitimate ones. Anybody who is new to the Internet can be easily tricked by a sophisticated phishing scam that attempts to get valuable information. Scammers send bulk emails to random email addresses in their possession. Typically, the message will appear [&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":[168,22,23,25],"class_list":["post-74489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-malware","tag-axis-bank","tag-email-malware","tag-fraudulent-email","tag-phishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489"}],"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=74489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}