A fake ‘Amazon’ website that attempts to scam people out of money under the impression they are investing in Tesla was accidentally promoted on Microsoft’s news website.
The news platform displays a range of stories from national media publications in a grid, occasionally punctuated by an advert. This page automatically opens when Microsoft Edge users load a new tab.
The page, titled ‘Tesla Opportunity You Don’t Want To Miss’, appears three times
(The Independent)
The advert, titled “Tesla Opportunity You Don’t Want To Miss” and which can take up to one fifth of the Microsoft News screen, directed users to a website called “Amazon Tutoring”.
The website, ‘Amazon Tutoring’, claims high returns on stock investments and encourages a minimum investment of £250, but a small disclaimer at the bottom of the page informs users that it is “intended for promotional literature that uses storytelling to illustrate the scope of the offered services and products. Therefore, the story told in this site is an advertorial or information & function-related advertisement, for better understanding of the proposed idea.”
The apparently fraudulent Amazon Tutoring website also states that its company headquarters is on the 85th floor of One World Trade Centre, despite the company not appearing on the list of tenants for the building. Its Facebook page contains no posts and has only 53 likes. Amazon’s official Facebook page, by contrast, has 29 million likes.
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