Carrefour is one of the largest and most popular hypermarket chains in Romania, with millions upon millions of customers who cross its threshold every year, the numbers being continuously increasing. Because the Carrefour brand is such an important one, it is used by hackers including for various phishing attacks that have been taking place constantly in the last period of time, and this is a very serious problem, unfortunately.
Carrefour is at the center of a last-minute warning coming from CERT-RO, an institution that is subordinate to the Romanian Government, saying that Romanians must be extremely careful about what is spread online. You can see below what the attack that is taking place in Romania looks like at the moment, and which uses the image of those from Carrefour to spread throughout Romania through social networks, where everyone is.
Carrefour: LAST HOUR WARNING for ALL Customers
Carrefour has the image used because we are talking about a company known to everyone, so it is very easy for messages of this kind to spread extremely quickly among people. Everything is designed to appear to be a game of chance, and the prizes are offered in the form of vouchers, but in order to receive them, Romanians must give their personal data and distribute the fraud to dozens of other contacts through social networks.
Carrefour they would never ask people to do something like that, something that a lot of people already know, so every time you see a contest like this you have to know that everything is a scam. Most Romanians are too gullible and don't realize this, so they end up being completely fooled by attacks of this kind, and not only having their data stolen, but also distributing the fraud to their friends, who believe it to be something real.
Carrefour he has nothing to do in situations like this, so Romanians are the ones who have to protect themselves in order not to fall into the net of hackers who want their data to do them a lot of harm.
