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Bangalore, July 11

Websense Security Labs has reported a `phishing' attack on the Google Pages. Phishing is a form of online identity theft that employs both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers' personal identity data and financial account credentials. Users are being shown a spoofed copy of the Gmail login page with a message claiming, "You WON $500.00!" The message states that this prize money will be delivered to an e-Gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account of their choice. If users select an account, they are informed that this prize money is only available to "premium members" of "Gmail Games". The page states that "Gmail Games" membership requires an $8.60 registration fee, and then asks users to pay the registration fee or forfeit the $500 prize money. Users are directed to an actual payment site to deliver the registration fee. This phishing site is hosted in the USand was up at the time of this alert.

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