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Phishing alert: Recognizing the latest scam involving AlertPay's name

Some of you may have heard about a scam taking place through Facebook regarding our payment platform's name. Someone out there has been posting messages on people's Facebook walls telling them about AlertPay's "Own0" contest. The message directs readers to a site that looks merely like our login page, but it really IS NOT in any way connected with the real AlertPay.

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How can you say if it is not indeed our own website? Well, it's really rather simple. Our URL is "AlertPay.com", not "AlertPay.own0.com". So if you get across a URL that reads like the latter, DO NOT insert your login credentials as this will compromise your protection and the confidentiality of your personal information. Here is what it looks like on Facebook:



It's actually rather a clever scam in that the con artist is actually referring to the competition as "Own0" - the wing at the end of the fake AlertPay URL (what appears after "alertpay"). This subtle move is good enough to convert people that the URL is lawful when, again, it is NOT.

It's too crucial to observe that the alleged "AlertPay Facebook assistant's" post is not well-written. Although we are far from the better writers in the world (there can but be one Hemingway), but we do pay much care to spelling, format and grammar.

How it works

If you click on this link, it will whip you off to a FAKE AlertPay login page and you will be prompted to introduce your login credentials. It will seem that the page is reloading and will actually redirect you game to the original login page. Why the reloading? Probably to throw you. After entering your certification and clicking on the login button, the scammer is actually recording the data you entered into the "Email" and "Password" fields. Once they get those details, they can come directly to our site and make admission to your story to do what they please. You do not wish this, so do not dawn on the link. If it does not say "AlertPay.com" or "AlertPay.com/[name of one of our sub-pages], avoid clicking on it at all costs.

Furthermore, our Security team is highly skilled in the art of busting people like this, but this is no apology to be complacent. Your knowledge of these things is ultimately your responsibility so please do a little homework on the types of scams that can (and do) take place regularly in the online world.

We are not trying to frighten you all, but we think we want to be forthright and only a little dread to pass the solemnity of these types of scams.

For more info on phishing and how to guard yourself against malicious individuals concerned merely with personal gain, please see our Security page.

Thanks for interpretation and make care!