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Shopee, Carousell most popular platforms used by phishing scammers

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Dissent

CNA reports:

Taipei, March 12 (CNA) Shopee and Carousell, two online marketplaces based in Singapore, have been the two C2C platforms on which customers were most likely to fall victim to phishing scams in Taiwan over the past five weeks, the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said Sunday.

After analyzing information reported by the public on the 165 anti-fraud hotline, it was found that hackers have recently carried out phishing attacks on C2C (“consumer to consumer” or “customer to customer”) online auction platforms such as Shopee and Carousell.

Read more at Focus Taiwan.

Category: Business SectorNon-U.S.Phishing

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