Three Phishing Fraud Models Often Used By Cybercriminals

Illustration of criminals who do phishing (photo: dock.unsplash)

JAKARTA Phishing is one of the most common types of fraud found in Indonesia. Cybercriminals who use this attack technique will steal the victim's data through a shared link.

Although the goal is the same, which is to attract users to click on the links they create, attackers always use different fraudulent models. To avoid phishing in the future, here are the hoax models commonly used by criminals, quoted from Makeuseof.

Fraud Wins Competition

Giveaways or free gifts are often found on social media platforms such as X, Instagram, and others. This prize distribution event is usually in great demand because people who participate can get prizes without spending money.

Unfortunately, this sharing moment is often misused by irresponsible people. Someone can pretend to be the organizer and share a link that is actually created to steal data.

Fraudulent Delivery Of Goods

The next type of phishing that cybercriminals often use is a problem with shipping goods because the use of e-commerce continues to increase. Usually, criminals will pretend to be expedition parties and report loss problems.

In the email agency, criminals will include phishing links that can retrieve user data in an instant. To avoid this hoax, you need to make sure that the account that sent the email is an official expedition account.

Platform Issue Fraud

The last fraud most commonly found is criminals who pretend to be internal parties of the platform. They will email about user account issues and include phishing links.

In fact, the scam link is easy to spot. When it comes to account security issues, the sender of the message should include a link that leads to the platform, not a link that is so long. The email used should also be the platform's official email, not individual email.