Malwarebytes Labs recently identified a new scam targeting PayPal customers with very convincing ads and pages.
Crooks are abusing both Google and PayPal’s infrastructure in order to trick victims calling for assistance to speak with fraudsters instead. Combining official-looking Google search ads with specially-crafted PayPal pay links, makes this scheme particularly dangerous on mobile devices due to their screen size limitation and likelihood of not having security software. A weakness within Google’s policies for landing pages (also known as final URLs), allows anyone to impersonate popular websites so long as the landing page and display URL (the webpage shown in an ad) share the same domain.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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