The false survey that runs on WhatsApp: you will not get €900 at Mercadona or a Nespresso …

Next Tuesday is March 8, which means that International Women’s Day is celebrated, a global event that resonates on social networks days before it occurs. And before an event of such magnitude, cybercriminals decide to take advantage of all the traffic it generates to sneak their scams, like this one about the Nespresso coffee machine that you won’t win. The WhatsApp survey on International Women’s Day The OSI, the Internet Security Office, has detected via WhatsApp messages that try to trick the user into taking a supposed survey. The message uses as a hook “the possibility of winning a Nespresso coffee machine under the guise of celebrating International Women’s Day, but its real objective is to collect personal data from the user.” The prize is won only by answering a series of questions and forwarding the message of the supposed prize between WhatsApp groups and contacts. The fraudulent message circulating through the messaging network looks like this: What happens when you click on the link? You access a fraudulent website where the Nespresso brand logo is displayed, along with the image of the coffee machine in question. You are then asked to answer a series of simple questions, and once…
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