Help The Homeless, Feed the Phishers?

Well, this is unfortunate. In the UK, we have something called �The Big Issue�, which is a magazine designed to help the homeless get back into society via a legitimate income. It sells around 300,000 copies a week and is listed as the third-favourite newspaper of young British people aged 15 to 24, according to Wikipedia.

At this moment in time, The Big Issue website is playing host to a French Paypal Phish � they have a zipped copy of the Phish uploaded to the server, and a live Phish directory too:



Here�s the live Phish:



Should the end-user enter their Paypal login, the next screen they see asks them to �Update their Paypal account� with valid card details:



Checking out the Fiddler log reveals something interesting:



Googling for that particular name reveals it has appeared in a couple of Paypal related Phishes previously, all at the tail end of 2009.

We�ve notified the host, and hopefully the Phish will be offline soon. Making ill gotten gains through the website of a magazine designed to help generate income for the homeless is in pretty poor taste, even for a scammer.

Christopher Boyd