A fake Paypal website, which was essentially phishing, asked users to confirm their account by sending a selfie photo of themselves holding their ID.
Her fake website PayPal tricked its victims by presenting a copy of the page connectionof Paypal in which he urged users to log in by giving their password, and additionally their credit card information, and ... a selfie of the user in which he would clearly hold his identity.
The issue was brought to the attention of PhishMe security investigators, and according to their report, the scammer was trying to direct users via emails to a phishing PayPal web page, written in Wordpress, located in New Zealand.
At this time, the phishing website in question has been removed. Its URL didn't look like Paypal's, so users who had some experience with phishing pages should have immediately realized they were on a wrong page. address.
In its first documentation ID cardof users, the website asked users to write their name and password. But the scammer was not satisfied. Once someone entered their password on this page, the scammer was sure they were dealing with a careless or uneducated user, and so proceeded to request more information. During a four-step process, the website asked for the user's address, credit card details, and a selfie of them holding their ID.
It is not clear why the scammer wanted this information. Her expert PhishMe Mr Chris Sims believes he wanted them to "create cryptocurrency accounts, to launder money stolen from other victims."
Of course, this technique with the selfie, where the victim holds his ID in his hand, is not done for the first time. In October 2016, the McAfee had discovered a parchange of the Acecard Android banking trojan, which also asked users when connecting their mobile phone to their bank account to take a selfie while holding their ID.
The tactics were quite innovative at the time, and several articles were written about it. So he probably gave the idea to the current scammer and decided to adapt it to his phishing.
The "selfie mission" process on the current site is odd. Instead of relying on WebRTC or Flash to access the user's webcam to take a user and save it automatically, the scammer asks users to upload a photo from their computer. This means more hassle as the user has to take out a selfie, transfer it to the computer, and then load it on the page of the scammer. Extending the attack in this way gives the user more time to observe something wrong on the wrong Paypal website and stop the process.
In addition, there is a second issue. Phishing websites usually do not have rules in the form of the validation format, and they take whatever users upload. This phisher had special rules for the format of the photos and requested only JPEG, JPG or PNG format.
The fraudster also made mistakes. The user's photo was not stored on a server under the scammer's control, but sent the data to an e-mail address in "oxigene [.] 007 @ Yandex [.] Com."
Sims says he searched for this address in the Skype user list and found a person called "Najat Zou," from "Mansac, France." Of course this information is not credible to determine his or her nationality or location user, simply provide a first step from which police officers may start investigating if they decide to investigate the matter further.