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09/23/2016
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WhatsApp again became the target of cyber criminals who now try to lure victims by offering fake coupons of McDonald's stores. The scam was discovered by digital security firm PSafe.
The user receives a message from a known contact or one of their groups in the application, which invites you to participate in a promotion.
Clicking on the fake coupon R$ 500 link, the victim is directed to a page with McDonald's image, which calls for sharing the link with at least 10 friends via WhatsApp.
Then, the user is encouraged to do the registration on malicious sites that perform unauthorized charges and lower apps that can infect the smartphone.
Prevention
To avoid this type of scam, Marco DeMello, CEO PSafe, reinforces the concept of a "biological brain" is not able to defend themselves from an "electronic brain" (cyber attack).
"So we have an antivirus installed on mobile is extremely important," he says. According to him, these programs have antiphishing lock (malicious pages) and warn of possible threats to each URL clicked.
DeMello also advises the user to keep the operating system up to date, never open attachments with executable extensions (.exe) and suspicious links that arrive via messages.
Source: UOL
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