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WhatsApp fraud for Black Friday 2022: Amazon

You like to get WhatsApp messages from friends. However, if it is a link to an alleged Amazon offer, we should look twice.

Dortmund-The Black Friday 2022 is imminent, and the first offers are already flooding customers. The bargain days are always in great demand for online department stores such as Amazon. It doesn't really be surprising when friends send you a special offer via WhatsApp-right? Special caution is currently required.

WhatsApp fraud attracts with a special Black Friday deal at Amazon

It sounds seductive when the message receives in the green messenger: Amazon Black Friday 2022 giveaway-5000 free products for you. But this is a fraud that is spreading like a running fire on WhatsApp and also on Instagram.

The stitch behind it is not new, is only hidden in a new guise. Disguised behind a Black Friday deal, the fraudsters only want to grab and sell data. To do this, they attract users with supposedly free products, competitions and surveys.

WhatsApp fraud is distributed by your own contacts-you can see it from the link

In the current case, a supposed competition in Amazon optics is hidden behind the link, which is distributed by your own contacts. But the association for information about Internet abuse minicam explains that the competition does not come from Amazon. The fraud is often recognizable by so-called short links, which do not indicate where the click leads.

If you tap the link, you should answer different questions, in the end you supposedly won a price-an iPhone 13 Pro. However, users would only reach the valuable price if they share the competition with 20 WhatsApp contacts or with five groups.

Amazon warns of dubious competitions: Be always suspicious

If users have done this task, however, no iPhone is waiting for you, but a competition form. However, it is not about giving away an expensive price, but solely about collecting data. This data is resold, and the participants can prepare for mass spam emails and dubious advertising calls.

Therefore, the credo is: do not click on such dubious links and under no circumstances state data. Amazon itself is also aware of the fraud stitch and warns on the sales platform:

We recommend that you are not aware of websites that you are not aware of and that you ask for answering surveys to be always suspicious. Unfortunately, the websites behind these surveys are designed to record customer information for the purpose of identity theft. (...) Serious intermediaries will never ask for personal information.

Amazon customer service

WhatsApp fraud can end in subscription trap and unwanted debit

But it is no wonder that some users fall for the trick. After all, the link comes from a contact-which apparently, apparently on the fraud, also called scam. In addition, the website looks deceptively real, where you can supposedly win an iPhone (more digital news at ).

But what to do if you have given your data? If users have given their credit card information at one point, it is probably a subscription trap. In this case, there is debit from the account.

Once you have found debit, you should search the contact details from the credit card statement and try to contact and contradict further debit. Miriam also recommends getting the credit card provider on board and discussing the procedure. If there is unlawful debit, a criminal complaint can be filed.

Amazon

after WhatsApp fraud and Amazon scam do not remain idle

Once you are bombarded with advertising emails, users have the option of finding out which data they have saved from the companies and where they got it from. For this purpose, the consumer center offers an interactive sample letter that can be used.

If the data is already in circulation, consumers should object to the use of the data at the responsible body. The consumer center also offers a sample letter.

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