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If you have received an unsolicited offer for an electronic coupon via Messenger or WhatsApp in Albert stores, feel free to delete it. The link leads to a fraudulent site that tries to extract sensitive data from the user, including credit card information.
“You will receive a message from your friend or colleague from work stating that supermarkets have decided to distribute CZK 3,000 coupons in these difficult times. To get a coupon, click on the link in the message. Do you know what we always tell you about links in questionable news? Never click. And this is also true in this case, ” describes the attack security company Avastwhich drew attention to him.
According to her findings, the link leads to a fake page that pretends to belong to the company Albert, but it is already revealed by the address of the link.
“Recently, we have registered several cases of fraudulent emails, sites and advertisements that impersonate Albert. All offer a prize, whether in the form of a voucher or a coupon. We warn our customers and all other users not to respond to such prompts, not to respond and not to try to start a communication dialogue! This is an abuse of Albert’s trademark, “warn sales network representatives.
Anyone who gets caught and gets to the fraudulent site will be asked to answer a few simple questions and send a message about the possibility of obtaining coupons to their friends via communication networks, and this fraudulent carousel has continued to spin.
Fake coupon form for Albert store.
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Then the person interested in the coupon, which is still only promised to him, is redirected to a page where he has to enter his login details and later enter the number and security CVV code of the payment card and contact details in the English form.
Caution on the Internet
Similar campaigns are spreading on the Internet at any moment, years ago one focused primarily on Lidl customers. She was again last year the names of the Tesco, Penny and Lidl strings have been misused.
Especially during the pre-Christmas shopping spree, people can lose their caution and run into them. They can install a virus on your device or divulge some sensitive data. You can prepare for e-mails that force you to change your password for internet banking or change your job, or for an SMS about a blocked payment card and a blackmail message about the publication of your data. We described them here.
As always, it makes sense to use common sense and a certain amount of skepticism and mistrust in such offers, which applies to all activities on the Internet. You can talk about security threats on the Internet and how to defend against them read more here.
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