Online Frauda, Photo: Antonio Guillem / Dreamstime.com
A Facebook users, who tells that she has been employed for five years, urges her followers on the social network to get an iPhone 15 Pro, accessing a link from comments, with only 49 lei, someone writes in the comments. The iPhone 15 is the penultimate generation of Apple and costs, on eMAG, 5,149.99 lei. In a response to Hotnews, eMAG confirms that it is a fraud.
The Facebook account that posted the fraud seems to be a false one, having few posts and photos on the profile and all being posted on the same day: May 27. Since the end of May, the account did not have activity on the profile, until Tuesday, when he posted the promotion of buying the product on eMAG.
“I worked at eMAG for 5 years, and last week I was fired just because I refused to come to work on my free day. I was tired! The management asked us not to tell anyone about it, but after the way they worn with me … I don't care anymore! – And I send him a gift, “writes the user.
The post has, at the time of publication of the news, over 590 reactions and 38 comments from accounts with Romanian names. They write that they ordered the iPhone from the link left in the comments and put pictures with it.
eMAG: “It is a fraudulent scheme in which eMAG is used unauthorized”
“This is a fraudulent scheme in which the name of the eMAG is used unauthorized. Our teams act promptly, referring to Facebook each such case to eliminate the fraudulent content. We recommend users to carefully check the source of any link before accessing them. or suspicious contents, to report them immediately, ”the company representatives said, in a response to Hotnews.
Contacted by Hotnews, DNSC spokesman Mihai Rotariu, explained that eMAG is frequently used in such fraud.
“Online retailers are usually in the top of visual identities copied by attackers, and eMAG is commonly used because it is a national recognized brand. Often, such phishing fraud attempts are propagated through social media platforms, for the simple fact that it is less expensive.
Attacrators can compromise a user account or page that already has a rich audience and has built a certain level of confidence for followers, or even launching new accounts promoting competitions, false campaigns or shopping vouchers, ”said Mihai Rotariu.
He also recommended for people who hit such fraud attempts on the Internet to carefully check the name of the promoted site, especially when personal data are required, and report them to the authorities.
A similar type fraud circulated on Facebook and Monday, on behalf of the Cosmetics Notino brand. A “sponsored” post on Facebook of a page created on the same day urges the followers to enter a link and order the “mysterious box” with products worth hundreds of lei, with only 15.50 lei.
