{"id":23444,"date":"2023-11-23T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/news-17174\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:10:07","slug":"news-17174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/news-17174\/","title":{"rendered":"$19 Stanley cup deal is a Black Friday scam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scammers never miss an opportunity to make a quick buck, and love to piggy back on the latest trends. So what better way to kick off the scamming season than by offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/glossary\/black-friday\">Black Friday<\/a> sales on one of the most popular products around: a Stanley cup.<\/p>\n<p>We found an ad on Facebook offering a Stanley Quencher for the low price of $19:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"933\" height=\"841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/deals.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook advertisement for Stanley Quenchers\" class=\"wp-image-98841\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Facebook ad for Stanley Quenchers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Normally these Stanley cups sell for $45 on Amazon. They&#8217;re very popular since they reportedly keep drinks cold for 11 hours and hot for seven hours. Even if your car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/stanley-cup-car-fire-tiktok-b2450490.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">burns out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking the advertisement takes you to a shady-at-best website where you can take your pick of Stanleys.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"2149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/advertisement.jpg?w=515\" alt=\"fake website for Dick's sporting goods\" class=\"wp-image-98842\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Website at domain d-sportinggoodsus[.]com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hint: look at the domain name. Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t like it either.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/d-sportinggoodsuscomblock.jpg\" alt=\"Malwarebytes blocks d-sportinggoodsus.com\" class=\"wp-image-98844\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Malwarebytes customers are protected<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both the site and the payment processor are registered in Hong Kong and will happily pocket your money without doing anything in return.<\/p>\n<p>To gain the buyer\u2019s trust, the Facebook comments are populated by bots and\/or compromised accounts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"458\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/facebook-comments.png?w=458\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98957\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2.8098159509202456;width:458px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Facebook comments of people claiming they received the goods<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As always, use your best spidey senses to pick up on scams like these. With this particular scam, you&#8217;re likely to only lose the money you paid to the scammers, but other scams can end in much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/threat-intelligence\/2023\/11\/credit-card-skimming-on-the-rise-for-the-holiday-shopping-season\">higher losses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-do-you-avoid-bad-ads\">How do you avoid bad ads?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You probably have the URL you need<\/strong>. It&#8217;s sometimes easier to search a brand name than put in the full URL, but if you go directly there you won&#8217;t get caught by any bad ads lurking in your search results. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Careful searching<\/strong>. If you&nbsp;<em>do<\/em>&nbsp;need to go looking, cross reference the URLs you see in search engines with a search of your own. If it\u2019s legitimate, you should see a large number of people and businesses referencing it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Report bad ads<\/strong>. If a sponsored ad is up to no good, there should be a way to report from the search engine or social media platform in which you found it. You\u2019re doing your part to help the next person who coes along to stay safe!<\/li>\n<li><strong>The thorny blocking issue<\/strong>. If you choose to block ads, be aware that the way you block may break functionality of the site you\u2019re on. Some sites will insist you turn off your ad blocker. Others may simply not work anymore if you use script blocking or turn off JavaScript. It\u2019s not so much a case of \u201cjob done\u201d, as it is \u201cjob just getting started\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remember, if it\u2019s too good to be true it probably isn\u2019t true<\/strong>, and could mean someone is trying to trick you into paying for something you\u2019re never going to get.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignfull has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>Black Friday sale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Save 50% on our Home bundles for a limited time only!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-malware-bytes-button mb-button\" id=\"mb-button-cd031d84-f7c2-4fbe-94fa-48e04a740a8c\">\n<div class=\"mb-button__row u-justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"mb-button__item mb-button-item-0\">\n<p class=\"btn-main\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/pricing?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=b2c_pro_acq_bfcmsocial_169929618190&amp;utm_content=V1\">CHECK<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/pricing\"> OUT DEALS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" \/>\n<p><strong>We don\u2019t just report on threats\u2014we remove them<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Keep threats off your devices by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/for-home\">downloading Malwarebytes today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2023\/11\/19-stanley-cup-deal-is-a-black-friday-scam\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> What better way to kick off the holiday scamming season than by offering a Black Friday sale on one of the most popular products around: a Stanley cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[11014,32,26699,10574,30536],"class_list":["post-23444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-black-friday","tag-news","tag-personal","tag-scams","tag-stanley-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}