Have you received a message from Booking.com? Don’t click, it’s probably a scam

2024-07-18 05:04:11

A recent popular WhatsApp scam is pretending to be Booking.com to steal your money and personal data.

Many scams by text or telephone. Hackers are always inventive in coming up with new techniques that can trick you. Among the new researches of these malicious people, we have been able to mainly observe false applications, but identity theft to pretend to be someone from your family or group.

This latter strategy seems to work on some victims because the new original attempt has recently been recognized and accepted by many WhatsApp instant messaging users. The application developed by the company Meta seems to be attractive to many hackers because it is easy to add users found in ID and send a message with malicious intentions.

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A new scam is pretending to be the online booking site Booking.com. Hackers impersonate the company to send you a message stating that the company is looking for new employees: “Bonjour. We are looking for people to work on our mobile hotel attractions booking platform (Booking.com) to help hotels increase views, bookings and awareness.”

The scandals are even more detailed and tested since the conditions of the alleged employment are attractive. The rest of the message specified “Average daily income is 50 to 500 euro” while the hours will be flexible, tasks that are very easy to do and everything can be done directly on your phone. In short, this is all the makings of a perfect job!

Unfortunately, this is actually a scam. The rest of the message indicates that it is possible to contact the Booking.com company to find out more while adding a number starting with +62 (so you are in Indonesia). The person you contact will therefore certainly try to get more information about you and send you a pirate link pretending to be in the real Booking.com site in order to steal your money.

If such a message should be received on your phone, then you should not respond to it and use the “report” option which is in the “…” menu on the top right of the discussion. Then click the “more” option to be able to report the discussion and the hacker to WhatsApp services and avoid future victims.