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Cyber Monday – enjoy the discounts safe !

Today is Cyber Monday , a day when all webshops (and not only)  give big discounts to many products they sell. Even if the discount campaigns of some webshops are incredible and too good to let it go, you should think twice before giving the order: the discount is for a product that everybody wants and seems very hard to find. Think of PS5, latest XBOX, etc…. the discount is waaaaayyy too big to miss you haven’t seen that website/webshop before you haven’t bought from that webshop before you haven’t seen on the Internet any review about that webshop you are being requested to give your personal details, card or bank PIN number If you answered YES to at least one, then STOP right here, right NOW. As a rule of thumb If something is too good to be true, then probably it isn’t!   How can you recognize if a webshop is fake or fraud? Transform the 5 statements above in questions and ask yourself. Is the discount for a product that everybody wants and seems very hard to find? Why would any shop (online or offline) exactly the product that everybody wants at almost any price, reduce it…


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Post Cyber Monday thoughts

Now that the Cyber Monday and Black Friday madness of buying at reduced prices is almost over, we expect to see the spam and scam campaigns related to these events. Every year, in the last week of November the two events bring into our inboxes a lot of spam and scams trying to make use of the buying frenzy of the unaware users. With the continuous growth of the social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and others, we see also a lot of such offers published there as well. The campaigns have started about a week before the Black Friday, trying to lure users to buy various things at unbelievable prices. Now, being in the middle of the week, we are seeing spams containing offers related to various opportunities of reselling the goods which were bought during this time and are not wanted by their owners. Exactly the same is happening after Christmas until middle of January every year. All these have something in common: social engineering and greed. I think that anyone would click on an offer if he sees a product which he wants since a lot of time, but it was too expensive to purchase. If below the…


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