This week we’ve found a large number of scams that you need to watch out for, including ones relating to Airbnb, Shell, Walmart, Ray-Ban, and more. Would you have been able to spot all the scams?
Fake Websites
To begin with, this week we detected several fake websites impersonating famous brands to try to trick you. Scammers spread links to these fake websites via text message and email, luring you to open the link with various excuses. Below are some examples:
#1 — Travel Scam (Airbnb / Booking.com)
The summer traveling season is not over! Have you planned your vacation and booked your hotel yet? As we’ve reported several times before, scammers create fake hotel booking websites, pretending to be big brand names like Airbnb or Booking.com. Here’s what these fake pages might look like.
A list of fake Airbnb / Booking.com URLs:
- partnersupport-center[.]com
- airbnb-ng[.]000webhostapp[.]com
- airbnb-paysverif[.]com
Note: the genuine web addresses of these 2 sites are Airbnb.com and Booking.com. Always pay close attention and be careful.
Don’t spend a cent on these fake sites. You won’t get anything for your money. And nothing would be worse than being far away from home with nowhere to stay.
These fake sites are designed to steal your personal information, including log-in credentials and credit card details. Scammers can thus use them to commit other cybercrimes such as identity theft.
