Twitter can become a trap for unsuspecting users: a scam has been discovered, for which Lady Gaga’s name was used. Let’s find out how.
On Twitter, Lady Gaga is literally booming: currently the undisputed queen of the social network, she boasts staggering numbers in terms of followers (or “seguaci” on the microblogging social network).
Perhaps precisely because of her massive presence on Twitter, as well as her fame in itself, a group of cybercriminals thought of exploiting the wave of her dual success to capture personal data from unsuspecting Twitter users.
Yes, a full-blown scam on Twitter was carried out, creating a questionnaire to be filled out in exchange for a “prize”: seeing Lady Gaga among your followers.
For once, it won’t be the fan subscribing to their reference star’s Twitter profile, but the opposite.
In the best-case scenario, the links suggested by the cybercriminals simply lead to pay-per-click pages. Once the page is closed, nothing particular happens.
In other cases, however, different behavior has been recorded: the link leads to a site (which G Data reports as tringaloo.com) that actually offers a questionnaire; to participate in the quiz, however, it is requested to send an SMS from your mobile phone to a suggested number. Obviously, this operation then becomes paid, and since the counter-performance is not what is advertised, it constitutes the crime of fraud tout court, not just simple computer fraud.
Be wary, therefore, of these tricks to gain clicks (the most innocent hypothesis) or personal data: if the official profiles and sites of your idols do not provide information about contests or prize mechanisms, it is very likely that a scam is around the corner.
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