Scammers trick people by promising to provide breached money
It seems that a newer scamming tactics practicing by scammers to swindle novice users. This time, scammers present some web page and offer users for monetary refunds by trick them into thinking that they are victims of some data leaking attempts. With this scam, the main aim of the scammers is to urge people to pay for money in exchange of transferring back the bigger sum that eventually does not happen. At the end, the victims left with the money losses only.
Users are asked for their personal names, contact info and other similar information
The scammers present themselves from United States Federal Trading Commission and the page as the Official Personal Data Protection Fund to give the impression legitimate. Users who receive the page are promised that they will be refunded the damage that happened in some data breach with them irrespective of the residence country they belong to.
When users visit the website, they find certain fillers as a service to check whether they are in the list of those whose sensitive details ever got breached during a data leak incident. Users are asked for their names, last names, mobile numbers, and additional information. This data verification form provides four verification type options:
- Social networks”,
- “Messengers”,
- “Ad Networks”,
- and “Other
Recommending SSN even if users have the real one
Tatyana Sidorina, a security expert from kaspersky states, no matter what the information you enters in the form you will very likely be provided with the claims that your data were leaked and there is a special refund awaiting for you.
The researcher tried with typing fghfgh fghfgh in the Name section and the results revealed fake information, video and photos. Thereafter, Sidorina was provided with a refund that reached $2,567. To get this amount, banking card number and the SSN are asked to be revealed. For those who do not have the SSN, the scam offers to purchase one for a two-day validation period of a tempting price of #9.32.
“If you do try to complete the transfer without buying an SSN, the site will return an error and demand a temporary number. And if by some chance you happen to specify a valid SSN in the fraudulent form, you will still be asked to buy a temporary one.”
Signs of identifying a scam website
The website’s suspiciousness can easily be signified from some factors the first of which is that the FTC is situated in the United States offering the refund for ALL countries. Continually, finding grammatical errors and spelling mistakes on the fake site or misleading payment window on the site. We recommend you aware of this type of scams. Do not hurry in providing personal information into unknown locations that offer rogue refunds.
