Business newswire Wall-Street.ro edited by online publisher InternetCorp was target of a phishing attack. Many internet users received an e-mail with the message “Congratulations! You won an iPhone!”. Wall-Street informs its readers that the messages were not sent by the company and takes measures to stop the fraudulent process.
The message appears to be sent from a website whose URL is info@wall-street.ro saying:
“Dear [e-mail address of the user], Wall-Street team has the pleasure to inform you that you are the winner of the contest «Win an iPhone with Wall-Street.ro!» Thank you for your attention to, and we are happy to invite you to participate in our further competitions!
For further details on how to get the prize (Apple iPhone 4GB), please visit http://loppa.ch
Best regards, ConstantinDraghici, initiator of «Win an iPhone with Wall-Street.ro!»”
Name of the subscriber is fake, and does not correspond with any of the InternetCorp employees. At the time InternetCorp team visited the webpage, it was out of order, so they were unable to find out what kind of information were asked to users, as long the webpage was active. InternetCorp team tried to locate the identity of whois.ch domain owner (the attempt failed as the owner’s data were protected by „whois-guard” service).
BitDefender: This message is a double premiere in Romania
According to BitDefender, the message is total news in Romanian internet landscape, where most of the phishing attempts targeted online banking services users.
“It is a double premiere for Romania, because fraudsters considered using the trademark of an online publication, and secondly because they don’t intend on getting details on bank accounts, but usernames and passwords” said Vlad Valceanu, head of Antispam research laboratory with BitDefender.
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