On WhatsApp is circulating a new fraud related to shopping vouchers in Conad supermarkets, attention is only a ploy to steal your personal data
Continue the problems of computer security on the messaging app WhatsApp. After the false vouchers for the shopping of supermarkets Lidl and Eurospin now on the service operated by Facebook is circulating a scam centered on the vouchers for shopping at Conad. To disclose the news the Commissariato di PS Online - Italy.
The Facebook page of the Postal Police has found on WhatsApp a new attempt at fraud. The purpose of this fake shopping voucher is, as always in these cases, to collect as much sensitive user data as possible. The message generated by the malicious is made quite well. In a WhatsApp photo we will receive a kind of poster with a logo of the famous supermarket. The photo invites us to fill out a questionnaire, also entering our data such as name, phone and email. And then to invite ten friends and wait to receive a 250 euro voucher. It seems too good to be true, and in fact it is not.
How to defend yourself
The scam then acts as a chain letter, are the same users of the service, unknowingly, to circulate the scam. There are several ways to defend yourself from this kind of devious attacks. First of all, as mentioned several times, we are always wary of messages about coupons and offers that arrive on messaging apps like WhatsApp. In most cases it is a scam. Conad, if it really gave away vouchers in exchange for answers to a questionnaire, would probably do a traditional-style advertising campaign. Like information and leaflets inside supermarkets or billboards around town. But also ads on the company's official social pages. Certainly, however, would not use WhatsApp. Secondly, to avoid the massive spread of the scam, as advised by the Postal Police on Facebook, if we receive these kinds of messages we warn our contact of the scam and convince him to warn also all the other people he has tried. Obviously we also avoid circulating the new scam in vogue at the moment on WhatsApp.
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