A supposedly tragic story of a serious train accident in Cologne is making the rounds on social networks. But the accident never happened, but the phishing trap behind it did.
One wrong click can have fatal consequences: Facebook users are currently lured into a phishing trap with false messages. As the “Mimikama” portal reports, the social network reports on a supposed train accident in the center of Cologne. However, that was not the case. The contribution should lead the user to reveal his login data.
The starting point for such a trap is often news of an extremely dramatic accident: According to the portal, users consciously play with the emotions of the user.
If the user follows the link, they will not receive any further information. Instead, he should click a link to a video, for example. In order to look at this, the user should enter his login data again. At this point, the fraudsters try to access the same data.
What can you do as a user? As a user, it is often difficult to recognize such traps, writes the portal. The more spectacular the story, the more careful you should be as a user, they say. It is best to always check whether well-known media also report on it.
According to its own information, Mimikama is an association for the education of Internet abuse with headquarters in Vienna.
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