{"id":3111,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Watch-Out-for-Bogus-Bill-Emails-Claiming-to-be-From-AGL","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out for Bogus Bill Emails Claiming to be From AGL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australian based energy company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agl.com.au\/help\/payments-billing\/stay-safe-online\">AGL is warning customers<\/a> to watch for fake bill emails that contain links to a malicious website. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The fraudulent emails feature AGL logos and formatting and may closely resemble the genuine bill notifications that the company sends to customers.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailguard.com.au\/blog\/brandjacked-agl-electricity-bill-fake\">report about the threat on the MailGuard blog<\/a>, most links in the scam messages open the genuine \u00a0AGL website. \u00a0 However, the &#8220;Download Bill&#8221; opens a compromised website that prompts users to download a .zip file. This .zip file does not contain an AGL bill as users might expect. Instead, opening the contents of the \u00a0.zip file can install malware on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agl.com.au\/help\/payments-billing\/stay-safe-online\">warning about the scam on the AGL website<\/a> notes that \u00a0all legitimate AGL electricity bills will include your supply address and account number in the email body.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals \u00a0have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/tag\/agl\/\">regularly used fake AGL bill emails<\/a> to distribute malware in recent years. They have also used the names of other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-origin-energy-bill-emails-links-malware\/\">well-known energy companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive one of these bogus bill emails, do not click any links or open any attachments that it contains. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h2>A screenshot of the scam email:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/watch-out-for-bogus-bill-emails-claiming-to-be-from-agl\/agl-malware-email-101018-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,883\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"agl-malware-email-101018-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1-272x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1.jpg\" alt=\"AGL Fake Bill Malware Email\" width=\"800\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1-768x848.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1-500x552.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/agl-malware-email-101018-1-585x646.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/watch-out-for-bogus-bill-emails-claiming-to-be-from-agl\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/watch-out-for-bogus-bill-emails-claiming-to-be-from-agl\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian based energy company AGL is warning customers to watch for fake bill emails that contain links to a malicious website. \u00a0 \u00a0 The fraudulent emails feature AGL logos and formatting and may closely resemble the genuine bill notifications that the company sends to customers. According to a report about the threat on the MailGuard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}