In recent days, WhatsApp messages have been spreading in which small refrigerators decorated with Corona beer or Heineken beer vinyls are raffled. Both messages are scams through which scammers try to obtain the personal information of their victims in order to steal their money.
In the case of Corona, the message justifies the gift of the mini-fridges on the occasion of the ‘Oktoberfest 2022’ festival. By accessing the link they provide, the browser does not take us to the official website of the beer, but takes us to a fake site.
????????Corona Family! ???? The official dynamics of the brand will be published solely and exclusively on our networks. Currently, there are many contests that can be a virus threat. Don’t fall for them. ????
– Corona MX (@Corona_MX)
There, we will first be asked to fill out a short survey. Later, the web will take us to another page where it asks us to choose a gift box from the several that it shows. After choosing any of them, the message will always be the same: we have won the prize and for this we must send the message to 20 friends via WhatsApp and fill out a form with our personal data. This is the reason why the scam is spreading so much.
Immediately afterwards, it redirects us to another page that indicates that we can obtain a prize of 800 euros from Mercadona. And, for this, it requires us to fill out a new form, where, this time, they ask us for personal data. In addition, by doing so we will be giving consent to subscribe to a non-existent service that will charge us a fixed fee every 28 days, unless it is cancelled.
Same scam impersonating Heineken
In the case of the supposed Heineken raffle, the procedure is exactly the same, except that the logos, images and colors are those of this other beer. In both cases, it is the same scam that spread a few months ago.
????EYE! ????The Whatsapp fridge SCAM is spreading like wildfire, in this case posing as Heineken. It will come to you through a WhatsApp from a contact of yours, therefore you will believe that it is true, but in reality… THREAD
— Manu {G²} (@CiberPoliES)
In that case, from the Internet User Security Office (OSI) it was advised to take the following measures: “If you have seen advertising or messages with these characteristics, you have accessed the link and provided your credit card information at some point, contact contact your bank as soon as possible to inform them of what happened. In addition, we recommend you remain vigilant and periodically monitor the information published about you on the Internet to prevent your private data from being used without your consent.”
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