Cyber Security | Cyber SCAM for Valentines Day!

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Happy Valentines Day!

I Love You.

Quite interesting right?

Valentines Day is celebrated as a big day for love and lovers. But some evil minds have put some danger behind the day. Lets read ahead;

We all have heard about I LOVE YOU virus that was a computer worm infected over ten million windows personal computers during 2000 when it started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs". 

Similarly hackers are thinking the scams in more and more romantic ways now a days. A new kind of Cyber SCAM came to notice within friends and family circle by the first week of February up to the V Day i.e. February 14, 2021. Some message was circulated in whatsapp and facebook on the name of Valentines Day gift. Many people have received and send or forwarded the received message.

If you click on this kind of messages, the SCAMMERs will collect all the personal information stored at your mobile. Then they will ask you to forward this message to other groups to get the gift claimed. Then they will ask to load a dangerous app on your mobile which will later give you worst results. 

The Message came in multiple types  as below;

“I received a gift card from TAJ Hotel and finally got the chance to stay in TAJ Hotel for 7 days for free. Httpsxx://wwwxx.nsknox.cn/tiaoban.phpxx?app=jiudainxxxx”....

And

“Answer the questions to receive the Valentines Day Gifts. I participated in this questionnaire and won a mobile phone. My friend also got the prize. Come and get prizes. Xttyn.cn/tiaban.php?app=….”

And

There was an another SCAM in the name of TATA group also.

Anyway below are few tips to avoid such kind of SCAMs in future!

• You must not click on unverified and unknown links.
• Avoid clicking on any sort of promotional emails or forwarded links.
• Discuss with friends and family not to forward further any kind of this messages to other people in their contact.
• If you click by mistake, just switch off immediately or disconnect internet quickly.
• If you find any grammatical error in such emails or messages you must not believe them and delete them immediately.
• Do not immediately pay blindly at online without verifying the link and genuine or trusted web site.

-DR