When we talk about phishing we almost always relate it to email, although more and more cases of this kind of fscam are being detected with the same objective, but that redirects to a false web page through other means such as messages exchanged through instant messaging applications, messages on social networks or SMS and it is very important to know which services are the most used for phishing so that you can take measures and precautions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25b8Banks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These use excuses to deceive the user: change in bank regulations, incorrect user session closure, improvements in security measures, intrusion detected in their security systems, account blocking for security reasons, etc. The objective of these is to steal credit card numbers, coordinate cards, PINs, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Online payment gateways<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Used to deceive the user: change in the service regulations, incorrect closure of the user’s session, improvements in security measures, intrusion detected in their security systems, as in the case of the previous phishing, mainly stealing bank details such as PayPal, Mastercard, Banorte, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Social networks<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Excuses used to deceive the user: someone has sent you a private message, strange connections have been detected in the account, for security reasons it is necessary to change the passwords and thus seize their user accounts, obtain their private data and impersonate his identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Purchase and sales pages<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this, there are mainly applications such as MercadoLibre, Amazon, eBay, etc. Which excuses are used to deceive the user such as: problems in the user’s account, suspicious movements detected, update of the conditions of use of the service<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Online games <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In this they use arguments such as security flaws in the game platform, problems in the user’s account to steal accounts, private data, banking and impersonate the identity of the users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u25b8Fake job offers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n These take advantage of the situation in which we are knowing that there are desperate people looking for work which are used to deceive the user by promising a job in which they manage to steal private data that can later be used for different fraudulent purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we talk about phishing we almost always relate it to email, although more and more cases of this kind of fscam are being detected with the same objective, but that redirects to a false web page through other means such as messages exchanged through instant messaging applications, messages on social networks or SMS and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phishing","tag-phishing"],"yoast_head":"\n