A scam related to Women’s Day with a chance to win a free chicken bucket from (Kentucky Fried Chicken) KFC is circulating over social media.
This KFC scam is not new either, as it was initially busted in 2019 by KFC Malaysia itself.
Somehow these messages have reached Pakistan, and people are forwarding the message to each other on WhatsApp.
Not only will it waste your time by resharing or forwarding it to your friends multiple times before you can unlikely win anything, but it also contains malware. So don’t just fall for anything like that and do not continue resharing.
Here is how a user gets a message and follows the steps to fall for the trap.
Once you click on the link, it will take you to a webpage with a couple of gift boxes that you are to open. You might fail with the first two boxes, but the third one is sure to open with the gift.
At that stage, you would likely share it until the progress bar turns full green, and then you will be able to continue to the next webpage.
The last step will lead you to click the link, where you will end up on a dead-end with nothing but hidden malware.
You may not even know what you have got on your mobile phone if you have no protection software installed. Only anti-malware software could detect it, like the one below detected as a script: “SNH-gen [Trj].”
It is better to stay away from free goodies until you know the source of the sender. Right now, It is good to share this article with your friends before they get trapped.
