GMail Phishing scam – Becareful !!

gmail phishing scam

If you are a tech savvy person – you probably know how phishing works. However, this time attackers tried to use optical illusion to trap people into a new phishing scam targeting the GMail users. Here’s how it looks like:

gmail phishing scam URL

Scammers attach an image which looks like it is an attachment. When you click on it – it takes you to the scammers destination – to the phishing link. And if you ignore the login URL – you are DONE!!

The phishing login page has been tricked as well to look like it is from Google. So even the most savviest person may fall for the trick. Here is how the phishing page URL will look like:

gmail phishing scam data url
Img credit: The Hacker News

 

So, next time you are forwarded to any login page – double – triple check.

You may find more about it in this link.

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