We are faced once again with a great example of a scam masterfully. On Facebook, there was another giga-deception. Unaware of anything Internet users, partly by his naivete and desire for profit, they forget the basic principles of safety and mindlessly come down on yourself problems. We remind you how not to get caught in the trap of cyber criminals and what to do, but if something goes wrong.
Scammers pretend to be on Facebook at the store RTV EURO AGD, the popular consumer electronics. Recognized brand, not the worst of confidence among consumers, social media – perfect set for cybercriminals. Firstly, at the very beginning I note: under no circumstances just click the posts that allegedly RTV Euro AGD places on Facebook . At the world’s most popular social networking site appeared a group called “RTV EURO AGD Giving Away Over 20 Thousand. Equipment and household appliances from the Yearbook 2014/2015 “.
The group was placed by a person claiming to as Ewelina Nowak post reads as follows:
Welcome
From this site management store RTV EURO AGD – best shop in Poland Emoticon like we have for our clients a nice message, namely
we want to give away more than 20 thousand. home appliances with vintage 2014/2015 (link) are a choice of appliances such as TV LG 55LB679V, Home Theatre
Samsung HT-F9750W, PlayStation 4 500GB, Smartphone Sony Xperia Z3 Dual, PC Asus G20AJ-PL003S W8.1, Apple Tablet iPad Air 2 (…).
Already first glance mass confusion . Firstly, the individual who posted this entry, posing as store management, store logo has a profile picture. Nowak common name and company logo on the profile, really ? A little suspicious. Let’s look also at the same entry – “ emoticons like ” means that the content is pasted from another post. Emoticons posted on the board, after copying are not graphics, and just text. Clutter in large and small letters ( “ rtv ‘,’ household “), strange spacing between the lines and the same link, which starts with “ http: // bit.do/rozdajemy-sprzet … “. At first glance, the page does not redirect us to the store page, whose address is, after www.euro.com.pl . The group name also is suspected, such information is usually published or the manufacturer’s website or on the official fanpage, never created separate groups. At least as powerful entities as a store RTV EURO AGD certainly would not go to this. Even if these little things we escaped, you must be very gullible, if you believe in that shop for so is to give away 20,000 pieces of equipment from the last two years .
To get to more customers, or increase the range of scam, the author of entry used the examples of equipment from different categories. We have a television, home theater, game console, smartphone, computer, tablet – if you do not need at the moment the TV, it might even new phone would come in handy, right?
Home was more than 100,000 likes, , but had gone with Facebook. This does not mean, however, that our warning is outdated. The service there was another, ideantyczne group:
If you’re wondering what a miracle, the answer is simple. We are dealing with the most popular facebook scam – the so-called. acquisition identity . Sure sometimes you are seen, like your friends publish the odd entries. They concern the entire weight really matters – from competitions won with iPhones or samsungami in the lead role, through murder, committed by immigrants to sensational entries like “Do not believe what she did! I saw it the whole city. Their response … “. Of course, there are posts published by the person who is the author or owner of the profile. These are samopublikujące garbage, after which you can click on a bad hurt. We talked about it with a security expert in the network, Piotr Kupczyk Kaspersky Lab:
All over Facebook, you can find dozens, hundreds and even thousands of these types of scams. Make Kerouacowi simplest rule: you have a problem? Do not click! Nothing will happen if you miss our mind stuff about the slaughter of dogs in China – after clicking on such a link would not be able to access its content. You will be prompted to enter a phone number or pay a fee for access to information, as a result, you start getting paid SMS messages or your account will be in the worst case cleared. Easy sensation and hot pseudonews is not worth it.
The mechanism always looks the same. Log in to Facebook, and there’s a shocking news shared by your friends 29-year-old was severely beaten and raped by refugees! – The beginning of the invasion or an isolated incident? Ruch Chorzow or fans took to the streets, severely beat Muslim refugees! The number of people who can not distinguish a real post from automatically generated spam, aimed at convincing the user to click, and consequently to extort money from him, is still staggering.
Well, we are not transferred directly to the interesting material, and a site that (and here we have some scenarios) asks us to accept cookies, administration swojegoadresu e-mail or – very often – a phone number to the code received via SMS, tells confirm the completion of 13 years – there are many grips.
Enter the phone number can have many unpleasant consequences. Often it is a consent to receive paid SMS. And this is not a matter of ten or twenty cents, and from a few to a dozen gold as a single received message. It is difficult to understand why people still share their sensitive data – such as phone number was – on the internet by typing it in the unproven and suspicious boxes. Is it podalibyście random person met on the street? And this looking pretty suspicious? Probably not, so do not do it well on the internet.
Clicking on the “confirm”, “save”, etc. At the same time authorizes your application for automatic posting on behalf of the user and / or receiving paid SMS messages. Unaware of anything fejsbukowicz and so will not get access to the desired information, or you will be redirected to deviating from the subject material, which usually do not have nothing to do with reality. Posts are published several times without our knowledge and intervention, even after a couple of day. Other people, seeing that your friend shared some interesting or controversial material, proceeds as described above, and so on. In this way the machine itself winds and the difficult now to stop it.
Piotr Kupczyk explains what to do and how to unscrew if you become a victim of this practice:
We appeal once again. Even if the scammers have already come to such perfection manipulation that instead of suspicious domains (shown in gray post written names of the parties from which the news) we find nowiny.opole.pl or nowiny.bydgoszcz.pl – that is not of very suspicious web addresses – let’s keep away from the false revelations. If you notice that your friend provides just such posts powiadomcie him about it, because most likely he has no clue about what is happening on the board.
It should convey this information to your friends, parents or even grandparents that uses the Internet about the existence of such a problem, to prevent the spread of this mechanism.
The authors of fraud are not persons associated with the company RTV EURO Appliances and they should not be associated with them. the company’s image was used by cyberoszustów.
Sebastian Kupski
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