The Shocking Truth Hidden Behind Every Clickable Link — Are You Risking More Than You Know?
So, what’s happening in this scam is a classic case of a “phishing” operation.
A scammer (or scamming team, which is more the reality today) who has built a website that looks amazingly similar to the actual Barnes and Noble site sends thousands of emails out to unsuspecting people.
How do they know who to send those emails out to? Well, there are plenty of lists sold every day on the dark web. There are actually people who spend their time and make their money using computer coding to scour the Internet, collecting people’s information, and then selling it. These computer programs can be can be customized to seek out specific things – for instance, people whose names appear on Barnes and Noble’s database for books that are selling on their website. A little cross-referencing, and these programs can match up names with email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses … you get the picture.
