Friday 9 April 2021, Poradnik bezpieczeństwa

Scammers target Amazon users

Lost24

Fraudsters took advantage of Amazon’s image to create a website featuring a fake contest. Experts from CERT Orange Poland warn against this form of attack, as the fraudsters want to extort payment card details. For this purpose, they create competitions that tempt users with expensive or unobtainable products.


In this case, in order to win the “Huawei Mate 40 pro 5G Full Netcom 8G + 256 GB” you only had to complete the survey. In addition, in order to spread the bogus website, a requirement was introduced to share the contest with 20 friends via WhatsApp messenger. After sharing the competition with the given number of friends you had to provide the payment card details in order to cover the shipping fee.


It is known that after entering the payment card details our bank account can be cleared of money.