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Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener

February 24, 2023 admin Amazon, email, Gmail, hotmail, LinkedIn, news, Outlook, payment details, phish, phishing, SCAM, scammers, scams, slinks

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: LinkedIn

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The email claims if you not update your card information in the next 24 hours, your membership benefits will be cancelled.

Independent Krebs

How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

February 3, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, Amazon, avanan, Check Point, fortinet, irs, jeremy fuchs, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, microsoft, Paypal, slinks, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).