Cyber Crime Update: Cyber Criminals Getting Smarter, More Sophisticated and More Organized

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Just this morning alone I have received two specially crafted scam emails from cyber criminals targeting unsuspecting Nigerians (mostly those that have bank accounts). I must say I am impressed!

I almost fell for this scam email even with my years of Information Security Research and Ethical Hacking. The reasons I almost fell for this scam are simply because.

  1. I am a UBA customer and I use their prepaid card for online transactions.
  2. The from name is no-reply@udirect.com ( not the actual email address but the name of the sender).
  3. The email is properly formatted.
  4. The real Url is masked under http://www.ibank.ubagroup.com/BVN(Here is the real URL masked http://ow.ly/XUJAM).
  5. The User interface is almost like the real one.

When I clicked on the URL It took me to this fake website below.

To See the Website and Read the Remainder go to Medium

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