Sophisticated Scam Of The Week: Cell Phone Voucher

  • 9 March 2014
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There's a fresh, well thought-out social engineering scam sticking up its ugly head right now. The bad guys are promising cell phone users amounts of up to $100 in vouchers using a combination of Caller ID spoofing and a fake website. The quality looks like it's the Russian cyber mafia behind it.
Here is how it works. You get a call, and the Caller ID looks like it comes from your cell phone company "Tech Support". The bad guys are targeting Verizon and AT&T, but watch out for variants using Sprint, T-Mobile and others.
It's a robo-call stating you are eligible to receive a voucher for your account. The amounts vary up to $100, and you need to visit the website to claim your voucher. The URLs look like legit phone company websites, and they are changing these URL all the time to evade filters. For instance, they promise you a $59 voucher and want you to go to "verizonvoucher59.com".
You go to the pretty real looking website, (it has stolen all the original phone company logos) and the site wants you to "Verify My Account" and enter your cellphone number, your ID / password and to add insult to injury, the last four digits of your Social Security number. But if you enter that info, you won't receive a voucher, but your risk of identity theft has skyrocketed.
 
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Jasper, again another great article for us with information to warn us all...

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