Apple fanboys and fangirls may have to be on alert for a new phishing scam claiming to be from their favorite tech company.
Security firm Kaspersky said the scam appears to target the banking information of prospective victims.
“The scammers didn’t just target logins and passwords for personal accounts but also users’ banking information, and in order to achieve their goal they are willing to promise anything,” Kaspersky expert Tatyana Shcherbakova said in a blog post.
“Inexperienced users may find it difficult to see through the fraud, but requests for confidential bank information or data that gives access to personal accounts are a clear sign of a phishing scam,” she added.
Shcherbakova said Kaspersky experts detected the phishing mailing sent on behalf of Apple as early as January.
These messages contained an offer to purchase a card giving a discount of 150 euros in any European AppStore for only 9 euros, she said.
Apple fans who want to place an order for the card were made to open an attached HTML page and fill in all the fields, including information about the user’s bank card, and the three-digit security code stated on the reverse of the card.
“In exchange, the scammers promised to send a discount card via email within 24 hours. But evidently it was just another scam to trick users. The fraudsters also used the Apple logo and automated subscriptions at the end of the message to confuse victims,” she said. — LBG, GMA News