Wednesday, April 9, 2014

2014-04-09 Phishing Alert: $25 Walmart Gift Card

I received this a few days ago.  Take notice of the gibberish hidden in the message body.  This is visible because I use a black background and the HTML is coded to display the text as white against a white background rendering it invisible to the recipient. 

If you Google the email address in the header (walmartvoucher@statcounter.com)the ONLY result returned leads to this page:

http://listofscams.blogspot.com/2011/04/guessologycom-scam-alert.html


===== Begin Phish Email =====


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===== Begin Phish Header Info =====

Return-path: <walmartvoucher@statcounter.com>
Received: from 173.192.221.232-static.reverse.softlayer.com
 ([unknown] [173.192.221.232]) by vms172095.mailsrvcs.net
 (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009))
 with ESMTP id <
0N3H00N6MLCN2F60@vms172095.mailsrvcs.net> for
 <recipient_address_omitted>
; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:22:00 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 20:21:49 -0700
From: "Walmart Voucher" <
walmartvoucher@sullen.statcounter.com.>
Subject: Congratulations on your Walmart Survey
 Reward,<recipient_address_omitted>
X-Originating-IP: [173.192.221.232]
To: <recipient_address_omitted>

Message-id:
 <
177552-177552-19.PZWSPKpLu4dP+MEVRlBMB/VWYEOqA9S6BiP@statcounter.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Original-recipient: rfc822;<recipient_address_omitted>

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