Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
There is a Woolworths Gift Card scam email offering $50-$500 gift cards. The email claims there are new gift cards, which they are giving away to a few chosen customers and you are one of them. You will see your email address in the list of lucky winners with a link to Check Prize.
The scammers attempt to entice the recipient to interact with the email via offering prizes for clicking on the link. But, by clicking the link, potential victims will be taken to a phishing website, where they will ask for your personal details so they can carry out fraudulent activities, such as using your credit cards and stealing money, or malicious software (malware) may be downloaded onto your computer.
Do not click on any links or attachments in the email. All links in the email, including the unsubscribe and report the email links, send you to a website containing malware. Anyone who has received the email should mark it as spam and delete immediately.
Woolworths reminds shoppers that they will never:
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