Scammers impersonating TSA pre-check to steal your money and information


A new warning as we head into the busy holiday travel season. It would be best to be on guard for fake TSA precheck websites. “We are seeing a disturbing trend of mimicking TSA-like sites,” says Karin Zilberstein with Guardio, a browser extension that identifies fake websites and other malware. She says Guardio has discovered several fake TSA precheck websites.

“The quality of the sites, obviously, scammers are getting better, using generative AI in producing more and more realistic sites,” Zilberstein adds. She also says looking at URLs may not even help you identify the website as a scam. Zilberstein says the URL may have, ” Something that you can relate to it, says the words TSA pre-check-in, and there are no fishy numbers, words, or symbols.”

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Source: ABC11 News


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