Phishers target Yahoo! Photos
Phishing attacks that attempt to capture a user's Yahoo! ID and password by tricking the gullible into handing over their credentials to fake sign-in pages have been around for months if not years. Recently, though, these phishing sites have begun using alternative Yahoo! Sign In pages, such as Yahoo! Photos, net security firm Websense reports.
I get links to the these sites via email all the time. It seems that if you place your email@address.com on a website, these criminals have automated software that find these addresses and email you a false email from PayPal or Yahoo! or ebay or any other account that you might have digital cash in.
Some of the emails they send look legit. But if you look under the hood, you'll see that it goes to sites that have nothing to do with the company it claims to be from. Typically, the address comes from outside the U.S.
