{"id":3043,"date":"2019-04-06T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=3043"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"USAA-\"Account-Verification\";-Phishing-Scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"USAA &#8220;Account Verification&#8221;; Phishing Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail purporting to be from financial services group USAA claims that \u00a0your banking security validation has expired and, therefore, you must click \u00a0a button to sign on \u00a0and validate your account ownership.<\/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><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from USAA. It is a <a title=\"Phishing Scams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anti-Phishing Information\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-scams-anti-phishing-information\/\">phishing scam<\/a> that attempts to trick you into supplying your personal and financial data to cybercriminals.<\/p>\n<p>If you click on the &#8220;Validate&#8221; button,  \u00a0you will be taken to a fraudulent website that asks you to log on to your USAA account. Next, you will be taken to a fake form that asks you to provide your USAA credit card number, pin, security code, and a large amount of other personally identifying information. The criminals can collect all of this information and use it to commit credit card fraud and identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>USAA has <a title=\"USAA - How do I identify and avoid scams?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaa.com\/inet\/wc\/security_how_avoid_identify_scams\">published information about such scam attempts<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Scams <a title=\"USAA \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Incoming Payment Transfer\" Phishing Scam Email\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/usaa-incoming-payment-transfer-phishing-scam-email\/\">like this one<\/a> are very common.<\/p>\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<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6061\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/usaa-account-verification-phishing-scam\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,822\" 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=\"usaa-account-verification-scam-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1-292x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6061\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1.jpg\" alt=\"USAA &quot;Account Verification&quot; Phishing Scam \" width=\"800\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1-500x514.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/usaa-account-verification-scam-1-195x200.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\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 class=\"date\">Last updated: March 3, 2017<br \/>\nFirst published: March 3, 2017<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=\"USAA \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Incoming Payment Transfer\" Phishing Scam Email\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/usaa-incoming-payment-transfer-phishing-scam-email\/\">USAA \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Incoming Payment Transfer&#8221; Phishing Scam Email<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"USAA - How do I identify and avoid scams?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usaa.com\/inet\/wc\/security_how_avoid_identify_scams?akredirect=true\">USAA &#8211; How do I identify and avoid scams?<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Phishing Scams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anti-Phishing Information\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-scams-anti-phishing-information\/\">Phishing Scams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anti-Phishing Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/usaa-account-verification-phishing-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/usaa-account-verification-phishing-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email purporting to be from financial services group USAA claims that \u00a0your banking security validation has expired and, therefore, you must click \u00a0a button to sign on \u00a0and validate your account ownership. Analysis: The email is not from USAA. It is a phishing scam that attempts to trick you into supplying your personal and [&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-3043","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\/3043"}],"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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/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=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}