Netcraft Publishes Details About A New Scam via Trump’s Social Media Platform

Netcraft has published a new blog post detailing its initial analysis of threat actors and malicious campaigns deployed using Truth Social, the social media platform created by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in 2022, to target its users. 

Key findings include:

  • Threat actors immediately target new Truth Social users — Netcraft received over 30 messages within hours of creating an account.
  • Truth Social’s group structure gives threat actors easy access to target groups with more than 100,000 members.
  • Advance Fee Fraud scams average $250, with some scammers asking for as much as $1,000 at once on Truth Social.
  • Central European, French-speaking threat actor targets global victims by impersonating trusted brands, including Spotify, Disney+, EasyPark, Sky, Netflix, and Google.

You can read the blog post here.

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