News about horror accidents is increasing, but they all lead to a phishing trap!
In the last few weeks we have been constantly receiving inquiries about alleged accident reports, all of which are false reports and are intended to lure users into a phishing trap.
Reports of plane crashes were made in Düsseldorf or Berlin , followed shortly afterwards by Hamburg . The users correctly assume that such crashes with the supposedly many injuries and deaths in the media would not have passed them by and are rightly skeptical about what could be behind them.
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Phishing!
In all of these cases the procedure is the same. A posting is made on Facebook. A photo of a shocking accident scenario is used, to which a short headline about the alleged event is added. In some cases, a line of text is also written to make the users even more concerned. Like in this case:
The link “medium.com” does not point to any known news platform. If you click on it, you will find yourself on a spartan page that repeats the headline:
You won't find a report or article here. Instead you can supposedly watch a video, at least there is a Facebook link to it. If you click on this, you will be taken to a login page that is modeled on Facebook:
If you log in here with your Facebook access data, everything is done. At least for the fraudsters behind the phishing attempt. Because you have just sent them your Facebook login details.
If you are not sure whether this login window is actually real, you can try to log in with imaginary data, e.g.: [email protected] as your email address and gfrrrrztuuugrrr as your password. If you go to any page after entering this, then the login window is fake because the data cannot be verified in the background. It is simply checked whether the email address entered can be in an email format.
In this case you get to a Facebook posting, which is no longer available. In other cases you reach various websites, which can sometimes be the homepage of Bild.
Conclusion
If such serious accidents had occurred, it is highly unlikely that people would not have already heard about them through the media or on the news.
Therefore, always be careful and first check whether there is anything to the story.
By the way: The picture used here comes from the train accident in Eschede in 1998.
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