Anyone who enters their own login details on the phishing site allows the criminals to make payments. The money is lost! Our Watchlist Internet partners warn!

A typo is enough to see fake ads

Numerous people with PayLife credit cards are currently falling victim to a particularly sophisticated scam. When you try to log in to the payment service provider's website, you search for the login page on search engines such as Google or Bing using corresponding terms such as "Paylife Login" or "PayLife Registration". In our test, a small typo like “pEylife Login” or “payliVe Login” was enough for the first search result to be an ad for the fraudulent phishing website instead of the real my.paylife.at page:

A paid ad in Google Search leads to a PayLife phishing page. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet
A paid ad in Google Search leads to a PayLife phishing page. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet

Important! Note URL!

Clicking on the ad leads to a website that looks exactly like the usual my.paylife.at login page. But be careful: Instead of “my.paylife.at” you end up on a replica website at “app-life-auth-web-09.com”. The login data of those affected, consisting of customer number and password, are requested there:

A replica of the my.paylife.at login page. The red arrow shows the phishing web address. Screenshot Watchlist Internet
A replica of the my.paylife.at login page. The red arrow shows the phishing web address. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet

As can be seen from the picture above, the noticeable difference to the real my.paylife.at website is solely in the web address. The real website with correct web address looks like this:

The real my.paylife.at login page. The green arrow shows the correct web address. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet
The real my.paylife.at login page. The green arrow shows the correct web address. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet

What happens after entering the login details on the scam site?

Anyone who enters their own login details on the fake website will be asked to enter further details in a different way than usual. Supposedly a “second review would be required”. The next step asks for the card number, its expiry date and the three-digit security code:

The second data query on the PayLife phishing site. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet
The second data query on the phishing page. Screenshot: Watchlist Internet

This data is misused by criminals to trigger payments. According to reports from those affected, the first debits were made just a few minutes after the data was accessed and damage amounts sometimes amounted to several thousand euros!

Before entering sensitive information, always make sure you are on the correct website by checking the web address. This ensures that your data does not fall into the hands of criminals.

“Before entering sensitive data, always make sure you are on the correct website by checking the web address. This ensures that your data does not fall into the hands of criminals.”

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Fraudulent websites in Google ads?

It's not the first time we've had to warn about fraudulent search results in Google ads. For example, we have already warned about fraudulent advertisements on Facebook, Instagram and Google! Dubious trade services such as fraudulent electricians also advertise on Google . There are also known cases in which download links in Google ads led to the download of malware.

What can victims of the scam do?

Anyone who has entered their own data on the fraudulent website must contact PayLife immediately to arrange further action and possibly block the card. If there have already been debits, you should try to have them reversed through the company. However, the chances of success are extremely low. If the money can no longer be recovered, we recommend reporting it to the police.

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