The Shocking Truth Hidden Behind Every Clickable Link — Are You Risking More Than You Know?
As for the rest of the operation, the whole idea behind the email sent to the author is to get him to log onto the Barnes and Noble website. Only it isn’t the actual Barnes and Noble website. It’s a fake that the scammers created. Its only job is to look real and offer the targeted victim a real-looking page on which to enter their personal information, including the bank’s name, their bank account number, and possibly a password.
All it takes is a link in that very official-looking email. We all know that most people, when offered a link they can just click on, will gladly click on it rather than going through the painstaking effort of actually typing in a website address. This is where they catch the poor schlub who doesn’t pay attention to details. That link will NOT take the victim to a sub-page of barnesandnoble.com, but rather to the scammer’s fake website.
