Scammers Take Advantage of Buzz Around Toy Story 3
Scammers are notorious for jumping quickly on the latest trends, including the World Cup and iPad launches. They have now turned to using the buzz surrounding Toy Story 3 to lure in unsuspecting victims to bombard them with pop-up software scams and fake survey websites.
The scams, purporting to show clips of Buzz and Woody talking, send users to malware-infected and useless sites. Some even claim to offer games related to Toy Story 3.
“Most of the surveys we see tend to ask a lot of questions that reveal plenty of information about the individual filling them in, and you probably don’t want your kids giving some random third party lots of information about Dad or whatever,” Christopher Boyd of Sunbelt writes in a blogpost. “Sites asking to install programs in return for the Toy Story game or movie should be avoided, along with any promises that sound too good to be true on Youtube.”
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