“Someone matched with you on Tinder” email scam is part of a scam campaign to trick users into subscribing to questionable services and signing up for potentially dangerous websites. The email claims that you have matched with someone on Tinder and you can supposedly find out who by clicking on the provided button. However, if you click on the link, you would be taken to a highly questionable website that offers some kind of subscription. It’s likely that the whole point of this email scam is to phish users’ personal and financial information.
If your email address has been leaked in the past by some service, you likely receive spam and scam emails on a regular basis. So this “Someone matched with you on Tinder” email scam is just one of those generic emails. When email addresses get leaked, they get sold on hacker forums to other cybercriminals, who use them for their own spam campaigns, such as this “Someone matched with you on Tinder” email scam. You can check whether your email address has been part of a breach on haveibeenpwned. Once it’s out there, there’s not much you can do, though you can at least be more vigilant with unsolicited emails you receive.
The “Someone matched with you on Tinder” email is made to appear like a notification from the dating app Tinder informing you about a new match. Users who use Tinder may not think twice about the legitimacy of such an email and click on the provided link. However, instead of being taken to their Tinder account, users would end up on an adult website. One of the sites we have seen is an adult “dating” website that claims “there are available women near you”.
Whatever site you end up on if you click on the link will likely ask you to subscribe to some service. You would be asked to provide your personal information, including full name and phone number. It’s not uncommon for such services to also ask for payment. If you fall for this and type in your payment card information, it would immediately be transferred to malicious actors. Successfully phished information is usually either sold on hacker forums or used by the cybercriminals themselves. Either way, if your payment information is phished, that could lead to financial loss if not prevented in time.
If you have given away your personal information, there’s not much you can do but be vigilant. However, if your payment information has been exposed, you can contact your bank to cancel the card and prevent unauthorized purchases. If a purchase has already been made, you may even be able to get your money back.
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How to recognize scam/phishing emails
Generally, malicious and scam emails are not difficult to recognize, unless they target someone specific. Generic malicious emails are usually full of grammar/spelling mistakes, which immediately give them away because senders pretend to be from legitimate companies. You will rarely find see obvious mistakes in legitimate emails because they look very unprofessional. Malicious emails, on the other hand, purposely make many mistakes to weed out less susceptible users.
Malicious emails are also often sent from random-looking email addresses, even when senders pretend to be from legitimate companies. Because random email addresses look unprofessional, you will never see legitimate companies use them. So whenever you receive a suspicious unsolicited email, one of the first things to check is the sender’s email address. If it looks suspicious, do not interact with the email.
When dealing with unsolicited emails that ask you to either click on a link or open an attachment, you need to be very careful. If you receive an email, seemingly from some service you use, and it asks you to you fix something in your account by clicking on a link, access the account manually instead.
Take this “Someone matched with you on Tinder” email scam, for example. It asks you to click on the provided link to find out the person you matched with. Opening the Tinder app and checking the matches would reveal the person so there’s no need to click on the link.
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