Messages reflecting on the phenomenon of fake Amazon recruiting e-commerce platform were informed by people to the Vietnam Cyber Emergency Response Center (VNCERT/CC) under the Information Security Department, Ministry of Information and Communications. through the receiving system, reflect spam messages, spam calls with prefix 5656.
As recorded on the system, people receive many messages via iMessage with the content: “Amazon needs to hire employees to work from home! ! ! Quantity: 100 people Job Description: Process orders from Amazon’s e-commerce platform. Required working age: 23 ~ 60 years old. Monthly salary from 10 million to 50 million dong. At least 500k ~ 3000K per day simple operation and accompanying instructions, you can receive money in 15~20 minutes. If you are interested in applying for a job, please contact zalo: zalo.me/84926367553 zalo: 84926367553”.
VNCERT/CC recommends that, when receiving advertising information, job offers with attractive income, people should carefully study information about businesses to avoid being scammed.
VNCERT/CC representative analyzed, the contents of the messages were mostly the same. The invitations with high salary from 10 million to 50 million. After the gap, people’s demand for jobs is increasing day by day with the aim of improving income. Understanding this, many individuals and units have taken advantage of fake Amazon’s e-commerce platform to offer attractive job offers.
Therefore, VNCERT/CC Center recommends that people should be cautious with all content, job postings that require leaving personal information, paying fees, depositing bonuses, etc., without going through other accounts. Amazon’s official account and channel.
Right before the warning about the phenomenon of spoofing Amazon’s e-commerce platform to send recruitment messages to scam users, in mid-April and early May, the VNCERT/CC Center also issued a similar warning to other businesses. case of impersonating Tiki e-commerce site and TikTok Company to send recruitment messages to deceive people and appropriate their property.
In order to prevent and prevent fraudulent tricks, VNCERT/CC Center recommends that people regularly update the latest information on forms of fraud and impersonation on the Anti-Spam Message Portal, Spam emails and spam calls at chongthurac.vn.
When receiving advertising information, job offers with attractive income, people should carefully study information of businesses. In particular, absolutely do not provide pictures of personal information such as: Citizen identification, People’s identity card, bank account information…; Do not visit links, download strange applications when the information is unknown.
In case people receive messages, spam calls or emails with signs of fraud, people should immediately report them to the Information Security Department, directly VNCERT/CC Center via text message number 5656 or via the website. chongthurac.vn for the Information Security Department to promptly coordinate and coordinate with relevant units to handle.