Disney Plus, don’t open the email: your bank account will be emptied – theWise Magazine

Among the scams going around via email at the moment there is one that takes advantage of Disney Plus. You have to be careful not to open it.

A medium that is still widely used to steal banking credentials and personal data is email. Everyone now reads it from their mobile phone and in general we trust an email more than an SMS, which have now almost fallen into disuse apart from a few exceptions. A recurring scheme by criminals is to disguise the email so that It sounds like an urgent communication.

This strategy is much more effective if it arrives at first glance from a reliable and well-known service. For example, in the past there has been no shortage of fake emails from the Revenue Agency in Italy inviting people to open malware links. Abroad, however, the e-mail messages sent for scam purposes appeared to come from Amazon, used all over the world.

The latest threat reported by cybersecurity experts, however, is new. The disclosed alarm invites Disney Plus users to open emails arriving from the streaming platform with great caution. In fact, in some of these communications he hides a sophisticated phishing attack and designed to look very realistic unless you pay special attention.

How the fake Disney Plus email looks like

The text contained in the message is not too different from those of classic phishing scams. The user reads about have a large payment to make to the platform. To hurry up, the email contains attached the details on the sum it will be paid automatically on the same day where you receive the notification. Furthermore, the fictitious payment shows the user’s name and surname.

Finally the email ends by inviting you to contact customer service as soon as possible if you do not intend to proceed with the payment. It goes without saying that at this point it is easy for the reader to panic and immediately take action to rectify the payment. It’s a shame that the number reported in the message is not the assistance number at all but is only useful for steal banking credentials.

Once called, the contact will start asking the user for the bank password or other sensitive information. In some cases the victim is even asked to download software on your computer which turns out to be malware only when it is too late.