The group behind the campaign was one scammer collective, codenamed DarkPath Scammers, who had created a distributed network of 134 rogue websites impersonating the WHO.
A couple of days ago, authorities in the United States seized a fraud domain harvesting users’ data in the name of providing COVID-19 vaccines. Now, Group-IB and the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) have shared details of another massive multistage scamming campaign that aimed at targeting users on World Health Day (on 7th April).
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The scammers had created fake websites impersonating the WHO branding to trick users into visiting fraudulent third-party websites. Visitors to the website were encouraged to answer a few simple questions to win a 200-euro prize on the occasion of World Health Day.
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Group-IB researchers that the group behind the campaign was one scammer collective, codenamed DarkPath Scammers, who had created a distributed network of 134 rogue websites impersonating the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The scheme that they created was designed to target millions of users worldwide and achieved that goal with the multistage set-up that the scam had. Once the users answered the questions, they were prompted to share the link with their Whatsapp contacts.
This allowed the scheme to be distributed virally. After filling out all the questions, the users would be redirected to third-party fraudulent resources that off ..
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