Scammers choose to the advertising of Instagram to perform the latest scams ‘online’

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• Panda Security alert that these are fake ads with offers above 70%.
• Thanks to Instagram, cybercriminals can choose exactly the sectors of the population that want to cheat.
• To identify scams, Panda Security recommends that, before clicking on the links, look at the sender of the advertisement.

The company’s cyber security Panda Security has warned of the existence of a new scam online that comes through Instagram, specifically, through the advertising of the social network, by usingads with offers of discounts by over 70%.

Panda Security report, as the most striking example by its volume, the publication of a series of advertisements with a bid of more than 70% discount on shoesTimberland, as explained by the company’s cybersecurity through an article in their official blog.

“this Is an important novelty in the way of making scams ‘online’, because, traditionally, the pirates do not invest in advertising in social networks for their scams to reach a large number of people”, warns Herve Lambert, Global Retail Product Manager at Panda Security, in the publication.

To benefit from the segmentation of audiences that provides the advertising in social networks, cybercriminals can choose exactly the sectors of the population that want to defraud, as well as custom advertising according to users, choosing, for example, various brands of clothing, according to Panda Security.

To identify scams, Panda Security recommends that, before you click on the links, look at the sender of the advertising. In place of getting by part of the own brand of shoes, or an ‘ecommerce’, the announcement of the scam is shared by one user with name and surname. “This fact, of game, already should cause one to doubt the confidence of the ad,” notes the company.

in Addition, it is also advisable to look at the fonts, and the colors that accompany the announcement, to warn if these are different that uses the company in its corporate communication, and in that case, again, wary.

Another critical aspect is the ‘url’ of the web page to which you redirect the ads. Panda Security recommends that you review the paths and the names of the links, as well as copy the ‘url’ and enter it in a browser to see opinions of other users in the detection of the falsehood of the page.

If the user has already clicked and you have been redirected to the destination page, even if you have not bought anything, it is advisable to spend a virus to the device to make sure that you have not installed some type of ‘malware’.

The danger of the fake e-mails

in Addition to the scams through Instagram, Panda Security has also warned of a campaign of ‘phishing’ via email in the crooks tomake it pass for Netflix to inform it of the suspension of the account. In this way, redirect their victims to a web page that is very similar to the streaming platform in which they steal the data of your credit cards with the excuse to update your billing information.

Panda alert the similarity of the reproduction of the corporate identity of Netflix in the e-mail and the web, and points out that the emails are personalised, including user name and also some images of the most successful series at the time.

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