Dozens of companies impersonated in evolving ‘Three Questions Quiz’ scam

guest · Dec 17, 2018

Dozens of companies impersonated in evolving ‘Three Questions Quiz’ scam
December 17, 2018
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...onated-in-evolving-three-questions-quiz-scam/

There’s no question about it: the “Three Questions Quiz” is a scam, regardless of which legitimate brand it’s attempting to imitate.

Indeed, a new blog post from Akamai Technologies identifies 78 unique brands impersonated over the past year by this well-established online phishing scheme, in which victims are tricked into giving away personal information to the owner of a malicious website, after supposedly winning a prize for answering three questions.

“The ability to abuse 78 different brands shows the scale and level of sophistication that these campaigns have,” wrote report author Or Katz, principal lead security researcher at Akamai.

“The social aspect to the quiz-phishing is a clever trick by the scammers, as such functions can be used to avoid some security controls, and it limits mitigation capabilities, since social networks applications are mostly used on mobile devices.”
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