The Internet Security Office, together with the Civil Guard, have set off the alarm for a new scam that the very popular is using, and plagiarized according to a recent court decision, LIDL's kitchen robot as a hook to get bank details of the most unprepared.
Rare is the month that a new phishing campaign (attempt to obtain data in an illicit way to impersonate a person) related to a large company or a public entity is not discovered.
In December, it fell to the Post Office.
In November, to Milanuncios.
In October, several banks.
The hook of this new Internet scam is simple: Lidl's kitchen robot, the so-called
Monsieur Cuisine
, which has recently been condemned as a plagiarism of the Thermomix by a Catalan court.
An example of the type of fraudulent email the scam works by
The scam consists of an email in which the user is announced that he can buy one of these kitchen machines for only 2 euros thanks to a large balance of points accumulated in LIDL.
When it comes to paying those two euros, enough information is requested to be able to access the bank account and even to impersonate a person.
The most sophisticated part of the scam comes when you have to enter said data, since the link that appears in the email redirects to a website that has been designed to imitate a bank page, so if it misleads you, you may fall into cheat easily.
Fraudulent website to steal bank details
Given the seriousness of the scam, since it can leave your bank account empty, the authorities warn that anyone who receives this email, delete it immediately and notify their contacts of the possible scam.
The best way to avoid these potential problems is to look very closely at both the senders of the emails and the web pages accessed through them.
And of course, be very careful when entering personal or banking information online.
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