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The situation in the Middle East has opened up a new gold mine for financial fraudsters.
Fraudsters actively use the situation around the conflict between Israel and Palestine, posing as charitable organizations to attract donations.
On platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Telegram, and Instagram, you can now find a lot of posts in which scammers publish dubious addresses of cryptocurrency wallets in order to lure gullible benefactors.
BleepingComputer found more than 500 emails sent from individuals claiming to represent charitable organizations, as well as a lot of phishing sites directly in Google search results and fake pages on social networks.
One example that attracted the attention of researchers was the "Gaza Relief Aid" account on the X platform. The domain associated with this account was registered on October 15 and does not have the support of official charities, although it claims otherwise. In addition, the organization's website copies content from the official Islamic Relief website.
It is interesting to note that although the site contains "press releases" and images of victims of the armed conflict, there is no information about the people behind it, the organization itself, contact details or physical address.
To avoid fraud, researchers strongly recommend that you carefully study the pages of charitable organizations before making donations, as there is a high risk of coming across a high-quality fake. And this recommendation will be valid not only in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Fraudsters actively use the situation around the conflict between Israel and Palestine, posing as charitable organizations to attract donations.
On platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), Telegram, and Instagram, you can now find a lot of posts in which scammers publish dubious addresses of cryptocurrency wallets in order to lure gullible benefactors.
BleepingComputer found more than 500 emails sent from individuals claiming to represent charitable organizations, as well as a lot of phishing sites directly in Google search results and fake pages on social networks.
One example that attracted the attention of researchers was the "Gaza Relief Aid" account on the X platform. The domain associated with this account was registered on October 15 and does not have the support of official charities, although it claims otherwise. In addition, the organization's website copies content from the official Islamic Relief website.
It is interesting to note that although the site contains "press releases" and images of victims of the armed conflict, there is no information about the people behind it, the organization itself, contact details or physical address.
To avoid fraud, researchers strongly recommend that you carefully study the pages of charitable organizations before making donations, as there is a high risk of coming across a high-quality fake. And this recommendation will be valid not only in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.