Dummy Facebook gift claiming phishing page

BEWARE of this phishing page !!!!

I was online yesterday and one of my friends was excited after seeing this page. As per him, he was trying to visit facebook, and this page came along. He was very excited to see this gift claiming page for 2.5K $s. He asked me if I am getting the same page of gift claiming.

Have a closer look at this page. Good example of phishing,





Look closely at the url – http://youwin-facebook.com-prizes.com/win/ .
Its not facebook.com. Primary domain is “com-prizes.com” and “youwin-facebook” Is the subdomain hosted on it.
Look at the second page comes up after hitting claim gift.



Complete scam of 31 $s plus your credit card information. Not a bad tactics haan!! Rule of thumb :: Never give your credit card information anywhere online.

Like I said before, main site url must be www.com-prizes.com. Try to visit www.abcd12345.com. And see what page you get. It will say, server not found or something similar. Which means this domain does not exist or is not registered.
Now try to visit www.com-prizes.com and see what you get.




It says “404 not found”; and not “server not found”. What this means is, above said domain is booked and it is there, server administrator (actually fraud ;) ) has cleverly removed visiting file and so its showing 404 error. Lets not go into technicalities.

Morale of the story :: Should you visited any such phishing page / any banking site url where you are going to type your banking passwords / credit card info etc, make sure you are on the right page. Keep an eye on your url.
And important of all – nobody gives you free for nothing. So, never fall for such free gift claim / lottery winning fake pages.

The US economy crisis and the Software Industry

Started with the news about Lehman Bros ant Merryl Lynch, US financial market has been in unprecedented turmoil in the past few days witnessing bankruptcy, mega-take over and US government bail-out of an insurance company. This turmoil has directly impacted spending in the US financial sector and is likely to create a downstream impact on other sectors of the US economy and worldwide markets.

I feel we are just starting to see the downturn and as time goes by we will be getting more worse effects.  Since most of the top tier companies have a substantial portion of their revenue comes from BFSI, which is the sector where problems are surfacing so badly, the  next few months will be terrible for the industry starwalts.

I got one interesting post publishing what country leaders had to say on this.



UK: " The UK market is in turmoil as like US it has been hit hard with the fallout in the Financial Market. The ripples of which can be seen in other sectors too and as surely the UK market is slowly slipping into recession . The retail market and housing market has slowed down considerably. The mortgage market is just flat as only 50 products are available in contrast to 500 available same time last year. Unemployment has gone up. Immigration laws are been revamped for skilled IT workers effective 01 Nov 08. There are more emigration ( people leaving) than immigration.  

The impact can be seen in the IT sector as demands for new hire are decreasing. The contracting market has slowed down as projects are been frozen , however the demand for contractors are still there as companies are rather comfortable with contractors rather than hiring. The rates are been negotiated harder. 

I personally think that this current scenario is an opportunity to market and scale up our offshore offerings both as Recruitment support and development projects."

USA :"We were here and building a T&M company during the early to mid 90's during the recession. Typically we found out that the projects and capital expenses are put on hold. Companies also let go of people and hire short term contractors.I feel that the T&M requirements will go up and specifically for the current as well as a bit of old technologies. I checked with Kevin and as of now the requirements have not slowed down.

 At least in the US I think the market has hit the bottom and should stay more or less constant."


Australia : " Offshore opportunities will increase specially for Application Development and maintenance"


India : "Due to layoff, more experienced resources will be available in India . Opportunities in India locally are mind boggling and this is a good time to focus on India as a market place."


Middle East :" Local demand is quite robust, however decision making will be delayed and time for closure will go up significantly".

On the whole, we feel that we are in recession already and it is time to tighten the belts , drop costs,focus on productivity and look at opportunities that typically surface during recession.

Please share your thoughts on this.

Thanks

Domey Bank pages

Hey Guys

I was checking my gmail today morning and guess what i saw in my inbox.

i got this email saying Axis banking online account has been violated.
Now joke is, i had an axis account 1& half year ago. and it has been closed couple of months ago :)).

Then i just visited the link provided by those guys in the email and to my surprise it was a phishing website

Check out the content of the mail below:-

Security Alert:

Attention! Your Axis Online Banking Account has been violated!

Someone with IP Address 81.102.72.19 tried to access your personal account!

In accordance with Axis Online Banking User Agreement and to ensure that
your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited.

Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved.

Please follow the link below to resolve this problem:
https://www.axisbank.com/security/resolve=acct

Thank You.

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, Axis ® Bank will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.


Now if you look very carefully to the link, you will notice that the actual axis bank one but the href given is
http://e-nocleg.com/baners/index.php?bank=www.axisbank.com/BankAway/dJSESSION2973743u383h3bjhffufDHJUGHSbwayparam=dabCcRhcJfLjtYCXCZuARrnhMYei0G7D&type=personal&stge=2&id=fyjdL1LXSFkUnut
which is the domey link

Here are the screenshots of actual axis bank & domey Phishing page.

Original Axis Bank Page














Domey Phishing Page















Please keep in mind, all the banks use Secure Socket Layer or HTTPS to perform banking operations, so never never perform transactions when url does not contain https://

Pass this message to your frenz, to be careful with such frauds.

Thanks.