PUAs can monitor browsing activity (URLs visited, pages viewed, searched queries, etc.) and collect vulnerable information extracted from it (IP addresses, geolocations, and even personally identifiable details). What is more, most of these apps can track data. However, PUAs can have different unmentioned and heinous abilities, e.g., run intrusive advertisement campaigns ( adware), modify browsers ( browser hijackers), etc. Potentially unwanted applications can force-open unreliable, deceptive, and even malicious webpages (e.g., ones promoting "Doge Giveaway"). To summarize, by trusting "Doge Giveaway" (or similar scams), users can experience serious privacy issues, financial losses, and other severe problems. Hence, it is highly unlikely for victims to recover their losses or for the cyber criminals to be successfully persecuted. Scammers are especially interested in cryptocurrencies because their transactions are difficult/impossible to trace. The collected information can be misused in various ways, e.g., employed to further other schemes, sold to third-parties (potentially, cyber criminals), and so on. For example, in tandem with phishing - a type of scam designed to extract sensitive/personal information from its victims.ĭata of interest includes (but is not limited to): names, addresses, emails, telephone numbers, account/service/platform log-in credentials (i.e., usernames and passwords), banking account and credit card details, etc. It is noteworthy that scams like "Doge Giveaway" commonly work alongside other schemes. Therefore, by trusting this scheme, users will experience financial loss. Five thousand Dogecoins (the smallest amount users can send to have doubled) is worth approximately two hundred USD however, cryptocurrency rates constantly fluctuate, so the conversion is likely to be inaccurate in the future.Īs mentioned in the introduction, "Doge Giveaway" is a scam, and any contributions made to it will not be returned. Should users be too late to participate, the scam reassures that their contributions will be sent back. Furthermore, there is a 10% "special bonus" that will be added to the doubled contribution sum. Users are urged to participate by contributing five thousand (or more) DOGE, by doing so they will supposedly have twice the sum transferred back to them. The scheme is supposedly a giveaway of one hundred million Dogecoins. The "Doge Giveaway" scam states that its purpose is to encourage mass adoption of the DOGE cryptocurrency.
Many users access deceptive/scam sites inadvertently via mistyped URLs, or redirects caused by intrusive ads or installed PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications). It must be emphasized that the "Doge Giveaway" is in no way connected to Elon Musk or the corporations/companies he is associated with. The scheme claims that the belief is held by Elon Musk - business magnate, industrial designer, engineer, and CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, Inc. The "Doge Giveaway" is stated to be created on the idea that this cryptocurrency will "make the world more fair". However, regardless of their contributions - victims of the scam will not receive anything in return. In other words, users are to send at least 5000 in DOGE cryptocurrency, and twice the amount will be sent back to them. This scheme promises to more than double the DOGE (Dogecoin) cryptocurrency contributions that users make. "Doge Giveaway" is a scam promoted on various deceptive websites.
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