Yahoo's Paydirect users are the target of
this very convincing Spoof email and Phishing scam...
This
spoof Yahoo email (see image below) is an HTML form. Any information submitted
is processed through a script located on btinternet.com's server and is forwarded
to an email address - mihai@ilovediamond3340.com. The form is further coded to
open the genuine Yahoo Inc. Paydirect web page giving users no sign that their
information is on its way into the wrong hands.
If you have received this email, please remember that it is very
common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly
different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different
provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common
place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first,
although not necessarily from the same apparent sender. The Spoof Email ...
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