{"id":921,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"AOL-Password-Phishing-Scam---'TJ2117-Virus-Detected'","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"AOL Password Phishing Scam &#8211; &#8216;TJ2117 Virus Detected&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><b>Outline<\/b><br \/>\nEmail purporting to be from AOL claims that a TJ2117 virus has been detected in the recipient&#8217;s computer folders and he or she must click a link to login and switch to a secure anti virus system. \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><b>Brief Analysis<\/b><br \/>\nThe email is not from AOL. It is a phishing scam designed to steal account login details from AOL customers. The compromised accounts will be hijacked by criminals and used for further spam and scam campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><b>Example<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<p><strong>Subj: Customer Care Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A TJ2117 Virus has been detected in your folders. Login \u00a0<span class=\"fakeLink\">Here<\/span> \u00a0to Switch to the new Secure TJ2117 anti virus 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for choosing our service.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nAmerica Online<br \/>\n=<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Detailed Analysis<\/b><br \/>\nThis brief email, which purports to be from large Internet service provider AOL, claims that a &#8220;TJ2117 virus&#8221; has been detected in the recipient&#8217;s computer folders. The recipient is urged to login to his or her AOL account by clicking a link so that a &#8220;new secure&#8221; anti virus can be deployed to fix the problem. <\/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<p> However, the message is not from AOL and the claim that a virus has been discovered on the user&#8217;s system is a lie. The email is a criminal ruse designed only to steal AOL login details.<\/p>\n<p>Those who click the link will be taken to a bogus website that contains a fake AOL login box. Once users have submitted their login details on the fake login form, they will be automatically redirected to the genuine AOL home page. Thinking that they have completed the necessary &#8220;switch&#8221;, victims may not realize until later that they have fallen for a phishing scam.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the criminals behind the scam are able to use the stolen account details to login to the real AOL accounts belonging to their victims, steal more personal information and \u00a0use the compromised accounts to launch further scam and spam \u00a0campaigns. The criminals may also lock out the rightful owners, so that victims cannot easily stop the fraudulent activity from taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Fairly crude scam attempts such as this one are aimed at less experienced computer users who my be panicked by news that they may have a virus on their system and click the links without due forethought.<\/p>\n<p>Email password \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/phishing-scams-anti-phishing-information\/\">phishing scams<\/a> \u00a0are very common and have regularly targeted users of all \u00a0major email providers. It is always safest to login to your online accounts by entering the site address into your browser&#8217;s address bar rather than by clicking a link in an email.<\/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\/aol-password-phishing-scam-tj2117-virus-detected\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/aol-password-phishing-scam-tj2117-virus-detected\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline Email purporting to be from AOL claims that a TJ2117 virus has been detected in the recipient&#8217;s computer folders and he or she must click a link to login and switch to a secure anti virus system. \u00a0 Brief Analysis The email is not from AOL. It is a phishing scam designed to steal [&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-921","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\/921"}],"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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/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=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}