Watch out: Scammers build fake AAP Facebook page to dupe users

As elections in India draw closer, online scammers have taken advantage and are pretending to be the AAP Facebook page. According to Symantec, the fake site spoofs Facebook’s appearance and includes a photo of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on the page to lure in unsuspecting users. The phishing site is hosted on servers based in Lansing, Michigan in the US, adds the blogpost on Symantec. [caption id=“attachment_1480983” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Image from Symantec blogpost.[/caption] So how does the phishing scam work? The website uses a picture of Arvind Kejriwal along with a like button, and is titled “Unite With Us Against Corruption.” The site’s background image is a picture of the party’s leader Arvind Kejriwal and his latest Twitter tagline: “Political revolution in India has begim. Bharat jaldi badlega”. Once users click on the like button, they are prompted to input their Facebook login credentials so that they can “like” the Aam Aadmi party page. However the button isn’t real and is just a tool for the attackers to steal confidential information from the user for identity theft purposes. Thankfully, the phishers haven’t done a very good job and anyone familiar with Facebook should be able to easily tell the difference. Once the login prompt appears, users are asked to log in so that can ’like’ cute baby pictures, and not the Aam Aadmi Party. According to Symantec, similar tactics have been used in the past and it seems that the attackers just went with the same template. If users do enter their login details, they are redirected to an acknowledgment page,which then asks the user to click another “like” button. The blogpost notes, that “the email address entered in the previous login page is now displayed on the acknowledgement page. The “like” button is placed beside a fake number that claims to show the amount of likes the party has already gained.”