9/11/2015 8:25:26 p.m.
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Ripe expansion- .- A suspicious message that asks for your phone number, a new friend on Facebook that sends strange links or emails requesting account information. There are some Scams well known in the, network but come every day new offenses that can turn your mobile phone into a real loophole for information. These are the most common today.
Kaspersky Lab , private enterprise endpoint security solutions, has compiled a list of the five most scams that are currently spread over the network.
1. Discount coupons.
A few weeks ago began circulating a promotion by social networks, which sure give a check users to answer a simple question, share the promotion and fill in some data. Clearly, this was a rip off.
As confirmed from Karspersky Lab, there are many companies that have been used as a hook to these frauds (Mercadona, Lidl, Zara, HM, The English Court, etc. ). The operation is always the same: they ask you to answer any questions, offer to share some data and to fill in the coupon to win. The aim of these scams is to get the user data, mainly the phone to subscribe to services Premium SMS or email and personal information to deal with them.
2. Whatsapp GOLD
This scam may be familiar, since it is an old scam that has returned to circulate networks this summer. The user downloads a new version of the popular instant messaging network promises to be better (GOLD), but give the phone the result is that you are enrolling a message service premium premium rate.
We are not tired of repeating that it is advisable not to open the emails that may seem dangerous or suspects. This scam occurs when the user will get an email in which we see that one of his friends sent him a voice message WhatsApp. By clicking to download what is actually installed on the computer or mobile is a virus. Karspersky Lab emphasizes that Whatsapp has already made clear that they do not send text messages or emails. You only get one if you have previously contacted your support team.
4. Change the color of Facebook
Like the GOLD Whatsapp, this is an old scam recirculated. Facebook users received a message inviting them to change the blue color of the social network through which they prefer. By clicking on the web from which supposedly this feature change is necessary to click on another link to download an application that finally calls the phone number the user so that it runs subscribing to SMS Premium feared.
5. Parcel shipments
If online shopping is easier to fall into this scam. The cybercriminals send a message as if it were a company reporting a parcel shipping. In the same email has a file that the user tends to download and containing malware. To avoid falling into this scam is best to look good sender, which normally has a weird name that does not match the company that pretends to be.
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