Fraudulent Gaming Sites Providing Fake FIFA Offers

In the past month, several phishing websites were observed to be spoofing online gaming brands. The popularity of the FIFA World Cup has encouraged users to visit legitimate gaming sites to play online football. The phishing sites were created with the hope of luring users to give up their credentials if they fell for fake offers celebrating the FIFA World Cup 2010. There were primarily two brands of gaming websites spoofed in these phishing attacks, and the phishing sites were created using free webhosting sites.
The legitimate website for the first brand offers users free and paid versions of online games. The phishing website of this brand claimed that the customer could get the retail version of one of the games from a given list for free as a “FIFA World Cup 2010” special offer. In addition to the game, other features were also included in the fake offer, such as organizing groups, joining chats, and so on. The fraudulent site further stated that in order to gain access to the free game, the user needed to provide the login credentials for his or her email address.
The second brand is for an online poker website. The brand is also a part of a popular social networking site as an application. The phishing page spoofing this brand claimed that the “customer” had won a lottery prize of (continue reading...)