Scammers are most active during the New Year holidays; They send potential victims phishing emails containing advertising offers or notifications from supposedly reliable sources. In an interview about this RIA News said Sergey Lipov, EdgeCenter Information Technologies Director.
According to the expert, attackers create letters that imitate official correspondence with well-known brands, banks and even government institutions. The purpose of all this is to steal personal data, including logins, passwords and financial information.
In particular, scammers send letters offering to buy tickets to Christmas trees or to the theater at discounted prices. The link in the messages leads to a fake website that imitates the real thing.
Lipov warned that scam emails are often messages about “urgent” issues that require people’s attention or “limited” special offers.
For example, recently attackers began sending letters with “offers” to buy tickets to the Nutcracker show. They stole the personal data of users they entered from a phishing page.
previously lawyer named Five rules to prevent scammers from deceiving you.