Phishing Attack: Verizon - ´Billing Error´

Verizon customers have joined the phishers´ target list. This phish is not the most dangerous out there, but not the most harmless one either. The e-mail you recieve is simple and believable :

The sender and the real URL behind the link are spoofed, so you don´t have a great chance in exposing it at this stage (unless you look a the HTML source code of the message).

The main phish page does demand a lot of information from the potential victim, which should be suspicious. The URL in the address bar also looks phishy:

You may try to enter a bogus CC number, but the phish will tell you it is not valid. This could make you believe this is a legitimate transaction. In fact, the rules for CC number validation are available to the public. This means that a phisher can check whether the entered number is within the valid range of numbers. It, however, CAN NOT check if the number is the given person´s CC number. You are safe as long as you don´t enter your real CC number.

More you can perform a google search on
credit card number validation.

This scam is hosted on a server in an IP range designated to the ´Latin American and Caribbean IP address Regional Registry´ . This shows a most probably a South American host - we believe more scams will come from there in the near future.  Phish website on IP: 24.232.147.238