Stay Alert: Shopping.com Merchants Targeted by Phishing Scam

Posted by on September 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

Over the weekend some of our merchants notified us that they were receiving messages from users posing as Shopping.com personnel, threatening that the merchant’s Shopping.com account will be deleted unless you sign in through a Shopping.com link.

Here’s a copy of the e-mail:

But the Shopping.com link connects the users to this page with the URL shopbabycrib.com:

Stay alert and don’t let scammers compromise your information. Check strange hyperlinks before you click them, and make sure when you’re entering account information you’re doing it through a secure URL. Shopping.com will always make you log in through https://merchant.shopping.com/mac/app.

About the Author+Andrew Davis is CPC Strategy's Director of Marketing, an expert in ecommerce marketing strategy, product marketing and all things comparison shopping related. In September 2010, Andrew finished writing the first-ever Merchant Comparison Shopping Handbook which teaches online retailers the most effective way to start and manage their comparison shopping campaigns. Today Andrew spends most of his time consulting medium and large online retailers and online marketing agencies. You can contact Andrew directly at andrew@cpcstrategy.com or via phone at 619-297-3798. See all posts by this author here.

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