Phishing Websites Targeting Paris Olympics Ticket Buyers Warning

TapTechNews July 14th news, the Paris Olympics will be held on July 26th local time, and fraud websites targeting people who want to buy tickets online have also emerged. The cyber security company QuoIntelligence recently warned that a large number of hackers have set up phishing websites to defraud unsuspecting consumers.

It is known that a total of 708 phishing websites were found by the security company, and these websites are generally similar in appearance to the genuine websites, and even let users choose tickets for specific competitions, select seats, and even directly purchase hotels in Paris at the same time. However, the researchers noticed that there are still'slight omissions' in the relevant websites, and there are spelling errors in the time/name of many events.

The security company tried to place an order to 'purchase' tickets on the website. After testing, they found that these fraud websites called the third-party payment system Stripe to require users to pay. This shows that the hackers are not for stealing credit card information, but just want to defraud the ticket money.

At the same time, the researchers mentioned that the prices of these phishing websites are much higher than those of the genuine websites. By comparison, the ticket price of an unassigned seat in the official competition is less than 100 euros (currently about 791 RMB), while the ticket price of the counterfeit website starts from 300 euros (TapTechNews note: currently about 2374 RMB), and even some reach 1000 euros (currently about 7913 RMB).