ARCHIVED - Latest email scam offers cheap Lidl food processors, Spanish Cyber Security Institute warns
There have been several email and text message scams reported in Spain recently with fraudsters masquerading as Lidl, Correos, ING bank and Amazon in an attempt to obtain peoples’ credit card or personal details
The Spanish National Cyber Security Institute (INCIBE) warned this week about a new scam that is doing the rounds. Victims are receiving emails that appear to be from Lidl, offering them extremely good offers on food processors. The emails include a link that, when clicked, redirects people to a phishing website that asks for their personal and card details.
INCIBE has warned anyone who may have fallen for this scam or others like it to quickly inform their banks and to Google themselves now and then to make sure their information isn’t being used illegally.
Lidl is not the only company that has had its identity supplanted recently by scammers. Correos, the Spanish postal service, has had to warn customers that emails and text messages are being sent out regarding inexistant parcels.
Text messages provide a link to click on, supposedly to track a parcel, which invite users to download an app that will try to copy data from mobile phones. Emails meanwhile claim that nobody was at home for a delivery and request users click on a link and pay a small amount of money for the parcel to be delivered.
ING Bank and Amazon have also recently seen their names appear in fake messages linked to phishing and other scams.
The authorities warn people not to click on links they are unsure of and not to provide personal or bank details if they are not entirely sure it is safe to do so.