The orange-register.net phishing scam
Click the link from the email and you’re immediately taken to http://secure.orange-register.net.
Looks official enough.
Then you’re prompted to fill in your personal details — including how long you’ve lived at your current address and your credit/debit card details.
Should you mistakenly assume this was an official Orange communication, you’d then be giving the scammer absolutely everything they need to raid your bank account and effectively pose as you.
Of course these scams aren’t new. They’re well used spoofing any number of banks and credit card companies. However this one is particularly well done. The links to ‘contact us’, ‘terms & conditions’ and ‘acceptable use policy’ all link dirctly back to the Orange site — as does the Orange logo and the ‘home’ link!
The trouble with this sort of thing — and the reason it does work for the scammers — is that it looks genuine. Very genuine. A standard internet user would have trouble telling the difference. I did — I noticed it said ‘secure’ but was running on a standard http protocol.
