The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released a list of scam alerts for February. Have you had an experience with any of these?
Social Network Misspelling Scam
I recently attempted to log on to a popular site and was redirected to a page claiming I’d won two free round trip plane tickets. I quickly realized I had typed the web address incorrectly, and although the page claimed to be this social networking site, it obviously was not.
IC3 says this is common:
Misspelling the domain name of [a social networking] site would redirect users to websites coded to look similar to the actual website. The website users were redirected to answer three or four simple survey questions. Upon answering those questions, users were offered a choice of three free gifts. Multiple brands were observed as being offered as gifts, including gift cards to retail stores and various brands of laptops.
Read more about fake online receipt generators and malicious code found in .gov e-mails here.
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