Users fall for this method again and again - because it's on Facebook, is "sponsored" and currently comes from a lot of sites with a blue tick, i.e. from accounts that Facebook has verified as genuine, which makes it all the more treacherous. But behind the multitude of graphics claiming that Amazon has launched a new electronic currency that can make you rich, there is nothing more than a Bitcoin scam.
The sponsored posts on Facebook
The posts use various images that graphically show how an investment of €250 can create a fortune of several thousand euros in 4 weeks.
The texts accompanying the images read, for example, “ From today you can buy Amazon's official e-money ”, “ Amazon's latest platform shocks the world and banks are afraid ” or “ AMAZON has invented a new electronic money ”.
Particularly perfidious: Some of the sponsored posts come from verified accounts and therefore seem more trustworthy, other posts come from accounts that have not been active for years, but in principle they are not German-speaking accounts.
Everything indicates that these are accounts whose owners were at some point victims of Facebook phishing , i.e. were lured to a fake page in order to enter their login details, which allowed criminals to take over the page.
A fake newspaper article
If you click on one of the links, you will come to a fake newspaper article in which Amazon appears to be announcing a new platform:

In the article, a Bitcoin platform is grandiosely mentioned and linked again and again (so no: not a “ new electronic money from Amazon ”, but Bitcoin), which supposedly comes from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos personally.

There is a Bitcoin scam behind the links
Behind the links in the fake article is a registration for a Bitcoin trading platform that operates in the same way as the many other platforms we have already reported on (for example HERE ): Users have to deposit €250 and are looked after by “personal advisors” ( in reality employees of a call center) and are pressured to invest more and more money.
It was only in June that such a scam was made known Ludwigshafen Police Department These platforms look legitimate at first glance and are advertised on trustworthy websites and social media. Once the interested customer has registered online with the trading platform, the cybercriminals will contact them directly.
Let's just take a sample of the advertised page: After all, there are reviews like this:

A “ Mikayla, 32 from Singapore ” reportedly rated the platform very positively.
Makes a good impression, right? However, not so much when you do a simple reverse image search:

The user of the platform doesn't even exist: the photo comes from an image database. It's the same with the other alleged customers: they're all completely made up!
Conclusion
use clickbait ( a familiar face and a success story) to attract users to their website and present fabricated content in the design of equally well-known media companies.
The “traders” are actually fraudsters who operate out of call centers. They support their “customers” very intensively via telephone and messenger service. During the course of the alleged advice, the victims are pressured into investing ever larger sums in highly speculative financial instruments and cryptocurrency after making the first, very small deposit.
However, with such platforms, which also advertise themselves with fake reviews, fake articles and sponsored advertising using Facebook accounts taken over by criminals, only the fraudsters behind them win.
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