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Well, the infamous “Target 50% Off Store-Wide” coupons have started popping back up on Facebook and Instagram again.
They usually pop up right before Thanksgiving but they’ve started making the rounds quite late this year.
These coupons sound pretty good, right? After all, who wouldn’t love to get a 50% discount on anything you can buy at Target?
The problem is, these coupons aren’t real. They’re nothing more than a ploy to get you to “Like” their Facebook page and visit a very realistic looking, but fake and malicious copy of Target’s website.
If you take the bait and visit the fake website you’ll be asked to log in to your Target account. When you try to log in the scammers will collect your login info and use it to log in to your account on the real Target website and assume control of it.
Even worse, if your payment info is up to date on your account they’ll be able to order things in YOUR name and use YOUR card to pay for it.
And to top it all off, the fake “Target” website will infect your computer with malware. Not good.
Several folks have reported seeing these fake coupons in their newsfeeds, and I’ve seen a couple of them myself. If you happen to see one DO NOT click on it.
If you’ve already clicked on one these fake coupons and tried to log in to your Target account, I recommend that you change the password and enable Two-Factor Authentication on your Target account as soon as possible.
As always try to remember this: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. And that goes double for anything you see on a social media site.