A genuine email message says you’ve won a $500 gift card for Ulta Beauty.
On Jan. 9, 2023, we reviewed an Ulta Beauty email scam that claimed recipients had won a $500 gift card. This was a phishing scam, and it did not come from Ulta Beauty.
The Ulta Beauty email scam claimed to come from “Ulta Department 74130” via an email address that ended with the domain name, climatekids.net.
“Answer and win a brand new $500 Ulta Beauty gift card,” the email read.
We scanned the link in the scam email with IPQualityScore.com’s helpful malicious URL scanner, which readers can use for free. The scan found that the link was “very risky” and contained “suspicious activity.”
We visited the link in a safe way and noted that it began on cosmosis.org, then redirected to quinyspike.com. The browser then…
