Wednesday, October 11, 2023

JG Wentworth phishing email with subject Credit Card Debt Relief

For the record, this is a CarID phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "Fw: your package is ready to ship!"

What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page. 


From : JG Wentworth<custom@uyengarden.com>
Subject : 
Credit Card Debt Relief












PHISHING LINKs;

1. 
https://cdn.uyengarden.com/1wnmudLv/xxxx?xxxx.html

How to tell this is a Phishing email ?

  1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
  2. Hover over images and all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it. 

How to examine Email Message Source?

Now let's look at message source
  1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
  2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from apple.com.


Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

  1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
  2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing

If you have received this email take further 

  1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/


Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

  1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

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