Scammers have surfaced online, offering people to rate hotels on the Booking.com housing selection portal for a fee. About this newspaper “Izvestia” said at R-Vision.
The Booking.com platform stopped working in Russia in March 2022. It is no longer possible to pay with Russian bank cards, there is no way to book a hotel from a Russian IP address.
“Despite Booking’s suspension of work in Russia, attackers are using this service as bait. But when you click on the ad in the messengers, the topic is set – the user is offered to help online stores “on sale”. You need to complete several missions for the prize money. For example, put “likes” on certain products on the seller’s website, ”the company told the newspaper.
Next, people are given the following tasks. For example, they are offered to open a wallet in a third-party service, transfer money there and use these goods from it. It is promised that the money spent for this will be returned with interest. But buying a product is just a scam, not a real deal. The new “employee” loses his money based on the article.
According to experts, scammers thus modernized the popular “recruitment” scheme on the Internet on AliExpress, Ozone and Wildberry, and they are constantly updating their script to deceive users.