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Boots impersonated in phishing scam targeting nearly 9m shoppers

Retail Gazette 16 June 2026 14h ago
Boots impersonated in phishing scam targeting nearly 9m shoppers
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Boots has reportedly been impersonated in a large-scale phishing campaign that targeted nearly nine million email inboxes, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress. The scam promised shoppers a free Boots beauty sample pack in exchange for completing a short customer satisfaction survey. Victims who clicked through were taken to a realistic-looking fake Boots storefront, where they...
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