Fake Twitter message lead to iPad scam, surveys and phishing
October 25, 2012 by Network Security
Filed under News
As yesterday Apple created some fuss revealing the iPad Mini, this thing has not lead to a loss of market share of its bigger version, and the offer for a free device is still a very used by online scammers trying to trick users give away their personal data.
The newest of these “Get a free iPad” scams begins with Direct Messages on Twitter asking users to watch a photo of themselves with an unnamed woman.
The link in the message redirects them to a Facebook app page that is forged to execute a PHP script as soon as they land on it, and it redirects them to a fake Facebook page.
This fake page offers them the opportunity to participate in a iPad 3 (or iPad 2) quality test and tells they will be rewarded with a free iPad:
Of course, that’s a big big lie.
“Depending on where users are in the US and UK, they are led to either a survey scam page or a phishing page once they click Click here,” warns GFI, while others are redirected to a well-known ad campaign page.
GFI’s engineers told that, so far, over 4,500 Internauts have visited the malicious Facebook app page, but the total number of victims is impossible to know.
