According to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, shoppers lost more than $12.5 million to cybercriminals during the festive shopping period last year.
Sending a fraudulent e-mail is one of the favorite reasons for these criminals, as a message is sent via e-mail with an address exactly similar to a specific company, offering a potential deal.
To discover this fraud, the user needs to carefully check the sent email address and whether it exactly matches the company name, especially in terms of spelling errors and message formatting.
However, the UK’s National Cyber Security Center has warned that criminals are likely to use increasingly accessible AI tools to produce fraudulent emails, websites and advertisements that are more convincing than usual.
Some scams may direct you to the retailer’s login page to enter your account information.
This may seem normal, but when you go through the process and enter your personal data, criminals capture that information and use it after redirecting you to a fake website.
There is a traditional type of fraud, which is through SMS messages stating that there is a postal package waiting for you.
The fraudster asks for a small amount of money to complete the process of delivering the postal parcel, impersonating one of the famous shipping companies, and here large sums of money are stolen from the user.
A good indicator that something is wrong is that the scammer is asking you to pay, through a “shortened link.” (free)
2023-11-24 16:04:55
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