{"id":859,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"AGL-\"My-Monthly-Bill\";-Malware-Email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"AGL &#8220;My Monthly Bill&#8221;; Malware Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;Paperless Statement&#8221; email purporting to be from Australian energy provider AGL supposedly includes a summary of your monthly bill and urges you to click a link to view your current statement in detail.<\/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>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe email is not from AGL and the link does not open a power bill statement. It is a criminal ploy that tries to trick you into visiting a compromised website and downloading malware. This is just one in a series of fake AGL bill emails \u00a0that have been used to distribute various types of malware. Typically, the malware payload is ransomware.<\/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\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4808\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/agl-my-monthly-bill-malware-email\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,422\" 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=\"agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1-300x158.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4808\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1.jpg\" alt=\"AGL Monthly Bill Malware\" width=\"800\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/agl-paperless-monthly-bill-malware-1-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/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>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis&#8221;Paperless Billing&#8221; email, which purports to be from large Australian energy provider AGL, supposedly, contains a summary of your latest energy bill. It claims that you can click a &#8220;Current Statement&#8221; link to view bill details and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>However, the email is not from AGL and clicking the link does not open an energy bill statement. In fact, the link \u00a0loads a compromised website that contains malware.<\/p>\n<p>This example is just one in a <a title=\"Bogus AGL Electricity Bill Email Points To Torrentlocker Ransomware\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/bogus-agl-electricity-bill-email-points-to-torrentlocker-ransomware\/\">series of fake AGL<\/a> bill emails that <a title=\"Fake AGL Bill Email Contains Malware\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/fake-agl-bill-email-contains-malware\/\">link to malware<\/a>. Typically, the malware payload is ransomware. Once installed, ransomware can encrypt all of the files on your computer and then demand that you pay a fee to online criminals to receive a decryption key.<\/p>\n<p>AGL has <a title=\"AGL customers targeted by email scam\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agl.com.au\/Residential\/Help%20and%20Support\/Hoax%20email\">published a warning<\/a> about the scam emails on its website.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive one of these emails, do not click any links or open any attachments that it contains.<\/p>\n<p>\n<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>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: February 8, 2017<br \/>\nFirst published: February 8, 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=\"Bogus AGL Electricity Bill Email Points To Torrentlocker Ransomware\" href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/bogus-agl-electricity-bill-email-points-to-torrentlocker-ransomware\/\">Bogus AGL Electricity Bill Email Points To Torrentlocker Ransomware<\/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><br \/>\n<a title=\"AGL customers targeted by email scam\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agl.com.au\/Residential\/Help%20and%20Support\/Hoax%20email\">AGL customers targeted by email scam<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/agl-my-monthly-bill-malware-email\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/agl-my-monthly-bill-malware-email\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: &#8220;Paperless Statement&#8221; email purporting to be from Australian energy provider AGL supposedly includes a summary of your monthly bill and urges you to click a link to view your current statement in detail. Brief Analysis: The email is not from AGL and the link does not open a power bill statement. It is a [&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-859","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\/859"}],"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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/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=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}