The Carrefour scam: this is how hackers are stealing customers’ money

Carrefour has become a new victim of identity fraud. As we know, Hackers often take advantage of the name of some established brands to perpetrate their bad practices. The method is diverse, but they always take advantage of the trust that these companies transmit to try to steal our data and, consequently, our money.

The latest attempt uses email to mislead customers. Keep in mind that, as a general rule, we are going to receive many advertising messages that we can classify as spam. However, those used by criminals tend to take more serious tones.

In fact, they often show safety notices designed to protect the information that the company keeps about its users.

This one in particular is related to the service Carrefour Pass. If you are a customer of the same, you can recover part of the money you spend on purchases made in these supermarkets. For this, users have a specific card where they will reflect each transaction. This means that, to use it, you need to be registered.

Thus, with the excuse of updating some or other data, cybercriminals will be able to go completely unnoticed and fulfill their mission: get our bank credentials.

This practice is known as phishing and we can quickly identify it: the text usually contains misprints, syntactic inconsistencies, broken links, meaningless expressions, perhaps, not all at once, but at least some of them do.

A decisive element is to look at the address from which the email is sent. If it does not match the domain of the corresponding brand, everything seems to indicate that it is false. In addition, it must be borne in mind that companies will never request personal data so directly, since they already have them with your prior consent.