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Refund scam impersonates Avast to harvest credit card details

ID: 3cc85a9e-35f3-57ab-a957-b38edf80eb0f

STIX ID: report--3cc85a9e-35f3-57ab-a957-b38edf80eb0f

Feed Name: Malwarebytes Blog

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-02-24

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

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This report documents a phishing campaign impersonating Avast that presents a fake €499.99 refund to coerce users into entering personal and full credit card details (number, expiry, CVV) on a fraudulent web form; the page uses Avast-branded assets, dynamic date insertion, Luhn validation to accept structurally valid cards, and an embedded Tawk.to live chat to actively coax victims, then sends the collected data via a POST to send.php and encourages users to uninstall security software.

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