Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Apple Watch for the repost: online scammers have mastered a new scheme of deception

Currently, an increasing number of phishing attacks, using as bait "smart" watch Apple Watch. This is related iPhoneBul experts antivirus company ESET.
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Apple Watch were announced in September 2014, and the official start of sales is scheduled for April 24, 2015. While analysts debate the prospects of the first wearable gadget Apple, attackers use the hype surrounding new items for their own purposes.
Experts found in social networks a lot of spam messages, invites you to take part in the raffle Apple Watch. Mechanics "lottery" is typical of phishing campaigns: to link to a third-party site to answer the questionnaire, to share the link with friends and subscribers.
For example, for one of the "jokes" on the Facebook page was created by the event.Participants were asked to leave their contact details and user name, and then invite friends to join the event. Fraudsters have promised to hand model Apple Watch (from $ 549) for 100 received invitations, Apple Watch Sport (from $ 349.) - 250 listed members and premium Apple Watch edition (from $ 10 000.) - 500 new victims.
In yet another fraudulent scheme, seen by specialists ESET, the potential victim to follow links to third party sites are also created to steal personal data, passwords and logins.
Spam about "Apple Watch in gift" spread and Twitter. In particular, references to "draw" appears in the fake account tweets «Apple Giveaways».
In ESET advised not to participate in the dissemination of dubious links and not to leave personal information on suspicious sites.