New VISA Credit Cash Back Scam Email
Well, I’ve arrived. Seems besides winning the European, Spanish, Hong Kong, Singapore, and world wide lotteries, I’ve also won 10% cash back from VISA every month. I just need to enroll by clicking on a web link. Sweet!
WOW! That’s a deal!
Except it is a scam.
The email looks really official. Nothing is misspelled or grammatically incorrect in the email. All the addresses say visa.gift.vouchers.com which seems official enough. gift.vouchers.visa.com would be a better address though.
Then I get down to the click here part. The display says gift.vouchers.visa.com – excellent, but the link doesn’t. It uses a bit.ly link. RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY FAST. See, real companies don’t use URL shortener services. They want you to see their URL and attach it to their good name.
This was the first of these email scams that made me look twice. I haven’t clicked on it yet.
- I copied the displayed URL and tried to go there. It failed. The server doesn’t exist.
- I copied the bit.ly link
- started a live-CD only Linux virtual machine to check it out.
- Low priviledge account, of course.
- It took me to a page that looked really official with lots of additional information about the new program, except it was in a completely unconnected URL from France. Of course, buried down in the non-domain part was visa.com.
Be careful out there folks. 100% diligence is needed. A single slip up could get you.
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