It’s not exactly a secret that the online world can be a dangerous place. Particularly so if you’re not very careful about protecting your data (and before you ask, no, this isn’t a sponsored post for some kind of VPN software). – The sad reality is that the internet is about as full of scams as it is pornography (ok, nearly as full). For a regular online user, therefore, it never hurts to keep yourself up to date with some of the more popular new methods making the rounds.
With this in mind, therefore, following a report via BusinessInsider a new online scam has been discovered that might technically (and somewhat contradictorily) be quite old. How can it be both? Well, while it’s only just been discovered, it’s understood that it might have been operating since 2019 which means that you’re almost certainly going to want to at least hear this one out!
Check Your Bank Statements – A New Scam is Discovered
There are, of course, many scam organisations which hold a whole host of stolen credit card/bank card details in their deep and dark vaults. Typically speaking, however, these are usually used for a one-time big-scale purchase. This new scam, however, works very differently. Rather than going for short-term gains, the scammers involved are more focused on long-term goals!
Usually coming under the guise of dating services, the scammers create websites and then, by using the stolen credit card information, ‘subscribe’ you to them…
