Urgent warning issued for all Cadbury fans over ‘fake’ free chocolate scam

Cadbury fans hoping to nab themselves escaped chocolate are being urged to beryllium cautious if they travel crossed offers for gifts online.

The cocoa giants person warned that determination are ‘fake Cadbury accounts’ doing the rounds online close now, aft receiving acrophobic messages from Brits.

Several radical contacted the institution connected social media, enquiring astir ‘realistic’ looking scams that promised escaped enactment boxes of chocolate. However, successful bid to assertion the reward, you would beryllium required to manus implicit idiosyncratic details, and successful immoderate cases, uncover slope details.

Examples were shared connected X (formerly Twitter) by customers, with @Maria35338108 asking: ‘Is noreply@cadbury.co.uk a morganatic email? I’ve had 1 saying assertion a escaped enactment box. Is this real?’

While @LeamYids shared a screenshot of a station they’d spotted connected societal media advertizing a ‘short survey’ that claimed to effect successful a escaped ‘ultimate enactment box’. Alongside the representation helium wrote: ‘Scam, right?’

Similarly, @VickyAlcock claimed to person travel crossed a institution she said was ‘conning people’ into signing up for a escaped enactment box, and past charging them £39 per month.

In effect to this, the authoritative Cadbury UK relationship said: ‘We’ve been made alert of fake Cadbury accounts claiming to beryllium giving users escaped gifts and asking for their slope details.

‘We tin corroborate that those person not been generated by america and would impulse you not to interact oregon stock idiosyncratic accusation done those links.’

Mimicking a trusted marque similar Cadbury is simply a mode successful which criminals volition often exploit lawsuit trust, and lure them into handing implicit idiosyncratic details, successful speech for cocoa that volition ne'er arrive.

A akin scam occurred recently erstwhile a fig of fake e-commerce stores were acceptable up appearing to merchantability the viral Dubai cocoa bars, which were primitively created by Fix.

At the time, Security adept Olga Svistunova told Metro: ‘Scammers are often speedy to capitalise connected trends, and the Dubai cocoa craze is simply a premier illustration of this.

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‘Using tactics that prey connected user enthusiasm and spot successful established brands is an effectual mode for cybercriminals to succeed.

‘To support themselves and debar disappointment, it is important that users wage attraction to details, instrumentality clip to verify the authenticity of online stores and beryllium wary of immoderate deals that look unusually generous – they whitethorn beryllium designed to deceive.’

Metro has contacted Cadbury for further comment.

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