“Your bill 3947291442 requires payment”: Beware of this Spotify phishing email

• In order to get your login data for Spotify, scammers send a phishing email.
• A problem with your bill serves as an excuse.
• The scammers also hope to get hold of credit card information.

If you receive an email from Spotify these days with the subject “Your bill 3947291442 requires payment”, be careful. It is a phishing email.

The fake message informs you that there is supposedly a problem with your bill. In order to help solve the problem, you will be asked to press a button that says “Your bill”. The exact wording of the email is as follows:

We cannot bill you. We hate to break bad news, but there’s a problem with your preferred payment method. Follow these steps to help us resolve this issue. Your bill

As the Austrian online magazine Watchlist Internet reports, the button takes you to a fake Spotify page. There you will be asked to log in with your data and then enter your credit card information. If you do that, the criminals have full access to your account.

If you fell for the scam, you can prevent worse by changing your password immediately. In addition, you should urgently contact the credit card company and Spotify.

Simple signs: This is how you recognize every phishing email

A first indication that you have received a phishing email: The email will ask you to confirm personal data or to enter it on a website. This Under no circumstances should you comply with the request. In addition, criminals often use the official logos of the companies they are copying in their emails, but not official sender addresses.

If you find the sender suspicious, you should read the email twice. You will often find spelling mistakes or inconsistencies in German grammar. The attackers usually do not write their emails themselves, but instead use automatically generated messages or translate known emails with a translation program. But why all the effort?

What do criminals achieve with phishing attacks?

Phishing is used on the Internet to collect real user data. Money can be made with these if e-mail addresses, names and other information are sold for advertising purposes or passed on in criminal forums. With the data obtained, cyber criminals can also address future phishing attacks in a more targeted manner, making their attacks more effective.

Attachments and links contained in malicious e-mails also often inject malware or viruses onto your computer. In addition, you should not simply ignore suspicious emails. Forward them to the above email address and help us report future phishing attacks.

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