Festive season is associated with the gesture of generosity. Taking advantage of this tradition and attacking the expectation of people, scammers have regulated one more phishing campaign in air, as revealed by the security firm AppRiver.
The messages are targeting Amazon as evident from the [Gift_Card(dot)exe] attached in the mail. A well planned fake message integrated Trojan downloader that belong "Yakes" (also known as Dofoil).belonging to the virus
A catchy subject line "Your gift card order" is enough to attract recipients to open the mail and further it also entails them with the information that they have received a gift card worth $250, which is valid till December 7. It urges the recipients to take the full advantage of the offer as the shipment will be totally free of cost.
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