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Well, the scammers of the world are really working overtime to take advantage of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
It seems that every week or so another scam pops up to try to separate innocent people from whatever little money they have left after being out of work for almost a month.
A very dangerous pandemic-related scam is making the rounds right this very moment and it’s targeting folks who are still expecting an economic stimulus payment to arrive.
The “Covert Redirect” phishing scam has been around for a long time, but scammers are now using it to harvest the email addresses and passwords that victims use to log in to their Facebook accounts.
The scam works like this: You visit a website and like what you see, but you are asked to either “Create a new account” or “Sign in using Facebook” before being allowed to see or do certain things with the site (leave a comment for example). [Read more…]