Instagram Ray-Ban SCAM is circulating

If you use Instagram, you may have noticed several friends posting photos of what look like Ray-Ban offers this week.Get more news about oakley sunglasses sale mens,you can vist sugenon.com!

The photos come in a range of forms, but tend to feature the Ray-Ban logo and sunglasses, alongside tempting offers, such as ’90% Off’ and ‘one day only.’They also include a website name, with the promise that it’s ‘official.’

But before you think that your friends have taken up side jobs selling Ray-Bans, you should know that this is a scam.

Speaking to Mirror Online, Nick FitzGerald, Senior Research Fellow at ESET, said: “This appears to be the continuation of, or perhaps the resumption after a lull in, the long-established abuse of compromised social media accounts to post fakes ads, or ads for fake goods.Over the years we have seen Twitter , Facebook , Instagram and other online platforms abused to post ads for various footwear brands (notably Adidas and UGG), medications, and Ray-Bans, among many other things.”

This form of scam takes advantage of accounts that are already compromised, making it easy to gain access and post what look like legitimate photos.

Mr FitzGerald explained: “Perhaps the account owner was phished for their login credentials, either for Instagram or Facebook if they have linked their accounts, or for their credentials for some other account where they use the same credentials as for their Instagram account?Another possibility is that their credentials have been involved in one of the many data breaches the last few years and someone has discovered their (almost) matching Instagram account and (almost) matching password.

“Or, maybe they just happen to have chosen one of the very common passwords and this account was then quasi-randomly discovered by a credential stuffing attack."

Regardless of how the hackers gain access to an account, once they do, they are effectively acting as the account owner. This leaves them free to post whatever they like - including the fake Ray-Ban offers.Once the hackers have accessed an account, they can collect the user’s contact information, and even send direct messages and emails to contacts.

Mr FitzGerald added: “They may also find the account owner’s email address from their private profile information, and if that account uses the same password, then use that to send spam or other badness (such as ‘I am overseas and was mugged, send me money’ scam emails).”

Thankfully, there are a number of ways to protect your account, courtesy of David Emm, principal researcher at Kaspersky.