Topic: Recent Corona Virus Scams - page 3. (Read 1193 times)

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6. Lastly, the use of corona virus map that infect users with malware and also using it to get access to passwords and other sensitive information stored on the website browsers.
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In my country our prime minster started a donation campaign for fighting against the virus. All news media outlet and celebrities shared the account information for everyone to donate for this cause.

Still fraudsters were able to somehow create a duplicate profile of this account and were able to get few people donate some money to this account. Unfortunately they were caught by the cops.

How on earth they were able to do it is still a mystery? I am sure few bank employee were part of this scam.

They create apps and capture victims once they have downloaded and installed the app. And the next what happens are the things that you mentioned. People are looking for ways to watchout the situation of the world for this pandemic.

But before installing, they have to verify the source and its authenticity. Not everything that they see are legit, they need to check it and everyone must be aware that scammers don't take rest even if we are in this dire situation.

and even using just some random person as their bank account and offering that person a cut.

In my country,the scammers are calling old people on the phone and telling them that their relative has been infected with coronavirus,so they have to donate a certain amount for his/her medical treatment.This doesn't involve cryptocurrency payments,but it's a nasty scam nevertheless,because old people are naive and can get panicked very easy.
The fight with the hackers/scammers will continue despite the pandemic.

I read on the cointelegraph today about how scammers are using the recent pandemic to scam people using phishing, malicious malware attack and other scam tactics to scam people. I think this is well informative and worth peoples attention. That is why I brought it here on this forum. There are major things that I read:

1. Scammers are using fake donation platforms to trick victims to pay bitcoin.
2. Use of phishing attack tricks claming to sell products for residents of specific affected areas. They claim to sell hand sanitizers and face mask and demands high price but will not deliver the items.
3. Using phishing attack to steal private data or to install malware or ransomware into crypto wallet devices.
4. Also, hospitals are not left out, victims of cyberattack in hospital are willing to pay to regain access to hospital compromised equipments by cyber attackers.
5. A new ransomeware called CoronaVirus was discovered on malicious websites. A given amount of bitcoin will be demanded by the scammers in order to unlock back their devices.
6. Lastly, the use of corona virus map that infect users with malware and also using it to get access to passwords and other sensitive information stored on the website browsers.

This is the link to the news on cointelegraph is very helpful and I will like you to read the news in full details.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/beware-scammers-are-out-for-crypto-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic

Let us all inform our people of this cyber attacks from the scammers, do not think only wallet owners can be affected,  some cyberattacks can also steal our banking or other sensitive information if you read the number 7above.  We should be safe and also handle our wallets and cryptocurrencies  as if scammers are always at work.

I have written some articles here on this forum about how to protect ourselves from scammers and about how to secure our crypto wallets. The two articles are well informative. Only the donation scamer tactic was not included as all these scam tactics above are what we wallet owners know about and avoiding daily. You will see the two articles helping using this link:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54021683

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.54107672

And lastly, let us tell our family, friends about this scams because not we only wallet owners can be affected. Stay safe.

Shame on such people who are using a pandemic situation like this to profit themselves stealing others' money.
While what you listed is true there are some people who are calling others and falsely claiming themselves as bank associates and stealing their money from their banks. Scammers have gone way too far this time.

During this period which is we are experiencing the pandemic corona virus or covid 19 disease there are many people who are taking advantage. There are reports that people are messaging netizens regarding a family member who is positive with the said disease just to get donations using transferring money in bank accounts which is just a scam. They are doing their best to get some money and to take advantage of the situation. These must not be doen because it can deceive other people who is working so hard to get some money.

During this period which is we are experiencing the pandemic corona virus or covid 19 disease there are many people who are taking advantage. There are reports that people are messaging netizens regarding a family member who is positive with the said disease just to get donations using transferring money in bank accounts which is just a scam. They are doing their best to get some money and to take advantage of the situation. These must not be doen because it can deceive other people who is working so hard to get some money.

Scammers are working harder this time because many companies are closing temporarily and are not providing salaries to its employees.More people are needing financial support this hard time. So there will be some people that will resort into scams to earn money.

In my country,the scammers are calling old people on the phone and telling them that their relative has been infected with coronavirus,so they have to donate a certain amount for his/her medical treatment.This doesn't involve cryptocurrency payments,but it's a nasty scam nevertheless,because old people are naive and can get panicked very easy.
The fight with the hackers/scammers will continue despite the pandemic.

Indeed, as we can see the coronavirus affects many people over the country so that their governments declared to have lock down, this order affects many people because their jobs also affect on it. So that many scammers now are using this crisis to scammed other people, they used all the most helpful people and show them that they are motivated to help to donate but it is not, they used it for their own will and not for others. To prevent of being scam just know them if they are legitimate or not.