The scam pretending to be SHEIN on Instagram (photo: screenshot)
Once again a particularly exhausting phishing attack is driving Instagram users crazy in Israel - this time at the expense of the Chinese ultra-fast fashion giant SHEIN.
In the last day, fake profiles tag Israeli accounts and promise them to receive a gift card if they only pay a "shipping fee" of NIS 15.
But from that moment the card details are with the attacker - who can use it freely.
An example of this is the profile alexandrastewart59rhi, a new Instagram account with no followers and no unfollowers, where Israeli accounts are tagged.
The profile includes 30 posts all of which have pictures of models and the caption "12th SHEIN ANNIVERSARY" (errors in the original). The post description also reads: "Congratulations you are one of the lucky winners for 2022."
How does the scam work?
In the first step, next to the tags, there is a tag that refers to the description (bio) of another fake profile "@il_shein_bonus_gcard", where there is a link to an external link to the "lottery".
On the main page there is a message that "only the first 100 participants will receive a gift card", when all you have to do is answer 4 questions - such as "Are you satisfied with the quality of SHEIN's products?".
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After answering, you get to a page where you choose one box out of nine red boxes, and after choosing the correct box (all are correct on the third try) - you win.
In order to receive the "prize", surfers are asked, as mentioned, to enter credit information for the payment of individual shekels for shipping fees.
And what happened to those details?
It is not known which hands they fell into.
In the past, scams that operated with the same method impersonated "Shufersel", "Rami Levy" and "Toyota".
Another more memorable one offered Israelis to win an iPhone 13 for NIS 10.
"This is another scam that aims to target an Israeli audience in order to steal credit card information. It is recommended to ignore and of course not provide credit information," says Tom Malka, Cyber Threat Intelligence researcher, in a conversation with Walla!
technology, and added: "If the credit information has already been provided, it is recommended to contact the bank and cancel the card as soon as possible. Such scams will always return and vigilance prevents disaster, there are no free gifts."
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