Dear Indians, beware of the "end-of-year carnival" scam, '"

New Year festivities begin,based in China alsohave their own plans. They are targeting Indian e•commerce users with a new"yearond carnival, Get free Christmas gifts" scam an investigation has The scam is designe to make e-commerce users believe that Flipkart is offering an year-end carnival al-though there is no such information this year on thecommerce player's Official

website regarding such a carnival, New Delhi-based Cyber peace Foundation Which conducted the imestigation said on Monday The cyberwriminals want

to dupe e-commerce users into thinking that they can wm a brand new oppo F17

Pro smartphone. The owner The sites that are shared via the social media platform, is not Flipkart Internet private Limited.

It seems that the sites registered in China. as per the investigation. While the

New Scam TXARS Many similarities with Spin The Lucky Wheel Scam reported earlier ... the new aims to also inject malware into the smartphones of users by

Ask people to install a third application • Malicious part. "It is necessary that international cyberceration between countries can destroy a criminal network that runs fraud campaigns that affect individuals and organizations to make cyber since the ilient, '" Neet Kumar.. President and Founder, CyberPeace Foun-

dation, said in a statement."With the growing number attacks and disruption in

cyberspace. countries are struggling with attributing attacks and fixing account&

bility Which stands to be one of the major causes of concerns today"The scam is new and is in the early stages of its lifecycle. There is a probability that this scam could reach a mass number Of Indians by Decemtpr 31 and could last

well until the first week of January according to Cyberpeace Foundation.

Unlike Spin the wheel scam, the format Of selecting winners is different this time. On the landing page. a lucky draw section can be seen, on clicking the start button it shows "It's a pity that you didn't get the ward, you have 2 chances" with an alert.

Also at the bottom of this page, a section comes up which seems to be a Facebook comment section Where many users h ave commented about how much the

offer is beneficial.All these comments and counts are fake as the in,vestigation. This scam is a much mon. malicious

Sion Of the earlier merce scams as it aims to keep users engaged with Fake Pop alerts