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Posted: Mon 23rd May 2022
A charity has issued a warning after fraudsters set up fake social media accounts in its name aimed at stealing a users personnel and financial details.
Wales Air Ambulance has said the fake Facebook and Instagram accounts were set up over the weekend.
The charity has now cancelled a competition it recently launched to win a VIP visit to an air base.
Scammers have been using the competition as a method to get users to click on links to a fake website.
The fake Facebook Page uses the Wales Air Ambulance Charity’s new ‘flying into the future’ branding which it launched on Friday.
Unlike the genuine one, the bogus Facebook page highlighted by the charity has an apostrophe after the word Air but multiple fake pages are likely to have been set up.
The link being pushed out by the scammers points users to a fake Wales Air Ambulance branded website hosted on Google Sites, a free web page creation tool.
The bogus website is clearly trying to gain credit card details from unsuspecting visitors.
The website states: “Congratulations, you are a lucky person who received a gift from us !!! Follow the final steps by clicking the registration button below! “REMEMBER” if you are required to…
