herbert on Nostr: Just received a very nasty phishing mail related to the Booking.com data breach ...
Just received a very nasty phishing mail related to the Booking.com data breach reported in the press, e.g.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly00jnnxypo The professionally looking email purports to be sent by a rental property we stayed at early this year. It states that we were overcharged for our stay and includes a QR code, which has to be scanned to get money back. I assume (but did not try) the QR code leads to a page where credit card information can be entered to claim reimbursement.
Published at
2026-10-06 10:42:03 UTCEvent JSON
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