Online fraud: 5 most common spammer tricks

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Spam and phishing often go hand in hand: Fraudsters send mass mailings in an attempt to phish information from recipients. For them, users’ personal data remains a highly prized and desired asset, as evidenced by both the constant high-profile media stories and our own spam flow analysis. A common aim of spam is to gain access to your accounts or bank card numbers through e-mail phishing and social engineering techniques.

1. Fake notifications from social networks


Spammers actively send fake notifications that seem to come from popular social networks and are about new friends, their activities, comments, likes, and so forth. Such messages are often indistinguishable from the real thing, the only difference being that they contain a phishing link, which is not always easy to spot. On following the link, users are prompted to enter their username and password on a fake login page.

Another common variant is messages supposedly from social networks, but this time with threats alleging, for example, that suspicious activity has been detected on your account, or that a new feature has been introduced and users who don’t give their consent will be blocked. Whatever the case, the message will contain a button with a link to a phishing login page.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/phishing-...oks/24888/