{"id":1485,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Fake-British-Gas-Bill-Emails-Point-to-Ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Fake British Gas Bill Emails Point to Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmails purporting to be from British Gas are entitled \u00a0&#8220;Your summer gas &amp; electricity bill&#8221; and contain links that supposedly allow you to view or pay your bill.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe emails are not from British \u00a0Gas. The UK&#8217;s Action Fraud website is warning consumers that clicking links in the bogus emails opens a malware website.<\/p>\n<p>The Action Fraud report <a title=\"Fake British Gas utility bills link to malware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/news\/fake-british-gas-utility-bills-link-to-malware-aug16\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The emails entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your summer gas &amp; electricity bill&#8221; contain links that take people to a website where they are told to download a file in order to view their bill. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After downloading the file, the virus locks you out of your computer and then directs you to an online payment page. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>British Gas say that their emails will always be personalised and often quote your British Gas account number (where the email relates specifically to your account) and will only provide links back to the britishgas.co.uk website. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you receive one of these emails do not click on any links. Instead, go to the British Gas website directly and log in from there. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The subject line and other elements may vary in different incarnations of these malware emails.<\/p>\n<p>Note that criminals <a title=\"Fake AGL Bill Email Contains Malware\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/fake-agl-bill-email-contains-malware\/\">often use fake utility bill emails<\/a> as a means of distributing malware.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2329\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-british-gas-bill-emails-point-to-ransomware\/fake-british-gas-email\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,320\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"fake-british-gas-email\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email-300x160.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2329\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email.jpg\" alt=\"Fake British Gas Bill Email\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Fake-British-Gas-Email-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Example image courtesy of <a style=\"color: #808080;\" title=\"Fake British Gas utility bills link to malware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/news\/fake-british-gas-utility-bills-link-to-malware-aug16\">Action Fraud<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: September 9, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: September 9, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"Fake British Gas utility bills link to malware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/news\/fake-british-gas-utility-bills-link-to-malware-aug16\">Fake British Gas utility bills link to malware<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Malware Threat Articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/malware-threat-articles.shtml\">Malware Threat Articles<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Fake AGL Bill Email Contains Malware\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/fake-agl-bill-email-contains-malware\/\">Fake AGL Bill Email Contains Malware<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-british-gas-bill-emails-point-to-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-british-gas-bill-emails-point-to-ransomware\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Emails purporting to be from British Gas are entitled \u00a0&#8220;Your summer gas &amp; electricity bill&#8221; and contain links that supposedly allow you to view or pay your bill. Analysis: The emails are not from British \u00a0Gas. The UK&#8217;s Action Fraud website is warning consumers that clicking links in the bogus emails opens a malware [&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-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}