Phishing
Fraudsters lure WhatsApp users with a Volkswagen competition
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There is a chain letter from fraudsters on Whatsapp. They want to tap data with a fake Volkswagen competition.
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Berlin.
- Fraudsters are trying to lure users into the trap with a fake competition via Whatsapp
- It is about an alleged anniversary of Volkswagen
- This is how you recognize the wrong chain letter
A message with a fake competition is currently spreading on Whatsapp. There should be a VW Tiguan to be won, allegedly on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Volkswagen. In fact, the message was circulated by criminals and was used to access personal information.
Who on the supposed Contest If you want to participate and follow the link in the message, you should first answer a few suspiciously simple questions. But to take part in the competition, the user should share the message with five WhatsApp groups or 20 contacts. Then the makers want the names and addresses of their victims – supposedly so that they can send the profits home to them.
Volkswagen isn’t celebrating its 80th anniversary
With so-called Phishing messages Like this one, the perpetrators target user data, which they then misuse, for example, for spam attacks. That warned in March Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) before a particularly perfidious scam: In fake messages on Facebook and Whatsapp, fraudsters pretended to be BKA officials and got their victims to hand them jewelry and cash.
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In the fake VW competition, the alleged reason alone is suspicious: The Brand name Volkswagen was introduced in 1937, the GmbH was founded in 1949 – so in no case 80 years ago. (küp)
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