Fraudsters Use Bogus Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Surveys to Steal Personal Info and Money in Ongoing Scam Campaign

From hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com

Scammers continue to piggyback on the pandemic and vaccination campaigns in a new giveaway vaccine survey scam purportedly from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

According to Bitdefender Antispam Lab’s latest telemetry, the survey scam has reached over 200,000 consumers since April. Our analysis shows a geo-targeted dispersal of the spam campaign, with 69.98% of the targeted users in the US.

Additional areas of interest for the scammers include Ireland with 12.39%, Sweden with 3.40%, Denmark with 3.23%, South Korea with 2.92%, the UK with 1.28% and Germany with 1.15%.

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