A new campaign by Phishing emails Spread among Italian users and take advantage of the most popular and appreciated brand in Italy. Fraudsters Baiting potential victims. The brand in question TelepassHistoric (formerly sole) operator of electronic tolls on the Italian motorway network.
there Fraud A phishing email in circulation these days starts with a promise Car repair kit Free for all who complete a Telepass survey.
A Survey Excuse Most Used by Scammers: There have been phishing campaigns in the past Fake Iliad polls It also promises iPhones or Samsungs as prizes, which we've seen recently Pseudo Eselunga studies Guaranteed airtight containers for the kitchen.
Fake Telepass Prize Scam: How It Works
This is New Scam Phishing follows a classic scheme that begins with an email in which the potential victim claims to have won a car repair kit. The value is 99.95 euros.
You have to do it to get the prize Click a linkThis leads to Scam site Real. This site most faithfully represents the graphics and colors of Telepass and contains A six-question survey User satisfaction on the Telepass brand and advertising on its services.
Everything seems perfectly legal, but it's not: It's all fake, It's all a scam. At the end of the fake survey, the site actually starts asking Personal data of the victim: Name, Surname, Email Address, Telephone Number, Residential Address, Postal Code and City. All of this data is then sold to other fraudsters on the dark web.
The next page of the site reveals the real scam: the kit is free, but you have to pay 2 euro shipping. Deliberately low number to encourage victims to enter their data Credit card payable In the worst case scenario, shipping goods thinking only a few pennies will be lost.
But this is not the case, because this is also among the data that the fraudulent site requests CVV code of the card, which is used for authentication Online money. If the victim enters it, Give the card to fraudsters With the money inside.
Fraudsters don't take long to empty a card, make purchases with the victim's money at night, and do so without being detected. Among other things, it goes without saying that the gift and it's not a kit Telepass has nothing to do with this With this scam.
How to protect yourself from this scam
As mentioned above Free technology When talking about online scams, the number one rule to avoid falling victim and losing your money is, Maximum alert and a lot, A lot of pessimism: No one gives anything away in online or offline life.
However, when in doubt, it's always a good idea to check for any signs of fraud on a site that asks us for personal and credit card details. First, it is already enough to understand what the site is URL (ie address: www.sitename.xyz)
In most cases, the URL is not remotely similar to the actual official website of the company being followed by the fraudsters. This is because pages that load infrequently are often used to perform these scams The websites were hacked a while backIt has nothing to do with the fraudsters or the specific object of the fraud.
For the same reason, then, usually The site is not fully navigable And many buttons and icons are fake: when the user clicks on them, nothing happens.
The same goes for the senderInitial emailOne with a link to a scam site: This is always a legitimate email address that has nothing to do with the brand being followed. It was hacked and stolen from its ownerHackers have no idea how they use it.
How to secure your account: 2FA and passkey
Have a max Safety Guaranteed Online payments are available today and we can use more than one technology tool to prevent such scams from becoming a nightmare for our online bank account.
By implementingTwo Factor Authentication (2FA)In fact, even if someone cloned our card, they wouldn't be able to get the second authentication factor to authorize the payment. Every time a hacker tries to use our card, so, we We will receive a message A code to enter as a second factor when he's not around because he doesn't have our phone SIM.
With 2FA, therefore, we get it instantly Two advantages: First, we know immediately when someone tries to spend our money, and second, we prevent them from doing so.
To further increase the security of our online account, it is very useful to set one up Biometric passkey As a second authentication factor, instead of a PIN sent via SMS. For example, even if a hacker has cloned our SIM using a fingerprint, we cannot pay with our card because no code is entered to authorize the payment on our phone number.
