A new Articulo Office phishing scam is spreading vía mensaje de texto messages.
phishing scam they are our daily bread in this highly technologically embedded society. For those who don’t know what it is, phishing is a form of cybercrime that emplees a message (mensaje de texto, WhatsApp, or dirección de correo electrónico) to coerce a usuario into believing that he or she is a trusted entity. It asks for sensitive data Seizure of your bank details, for example. Some of them are very creative, as in the case of browser within browser.
Now we cánido I know thanks to Genbeta a case of a new phishing scam being distributed vía mensaje de texto, and so on Try to mimic the articulo to fool users. And anyone cánido fall.
Articulo, customs, liens and fee collection
The appearance of the message is what you will see below. The message sender appears to be a private number but in the body of the message We warn that it seems to come from Correos customer service. In addition, the content of the message makes it completely legitimate.
If we stop reading it we will see that they tell us that we intend to have a package ready for delivery in the next 12 or 24 hours … although theoretically regulated by customs. So far it may be elogiable; Many users place orders on AliExpress, and this is not the first time a package from China has been held up.
On the other hand, the message states 2.64 euros to buy that we have to pay to drop this package. It’s a way of giving cheating an aura of truth; It’s a small amount and many would have no problem paying it.
This is a message scam pretending to be the articulo office
We cánido start to get suspicious by looking at this dirección de Internet to which the message forwards us: This is a backlink shortening service and not an official Swiss Articulo service. This should already equipo off some alarm bells, but it seems that many users have fallen for the scam anyway. The backlink takes us to a a website afín to the articulo office.
There the usuario will be asked for their personal information to ensure that the package is addressed to them. and credit card number. This request is probably to pay customs, but what we really do is when we fall for the scam Disclose all of our personal information to criminals.
If you received the message, clicked the backlink and fell for the scam, contact your bank immediately and cancel all your credit cards. By the way, keep an eye on your account in case there are movements that you have not authorized to keep your bank informed.