The increase in the number of subscriptions and their price means that More and more users are reconsidering their registration on several platforms and that even piracy is experiencing a resurgence, despite the measures taken by administrations. One of the strategies of large companies to encourage the use of their services is to launch temporary promotions.
For example, Disney+ recently presented a promotion with which you could access its cheapest rate, the one with advertising, for 1.99 dollars per month for three months. These offers are often visible in advertisements and may also reach former customers via email.
The problem is that what arrives in the mail is not a legitimate promotion but a scam. This is what happened to some people, who received an email with a HBO Max subscription offer at an incredible price: 2 dollars per year. Yes, per year, not per month. Of course, as an offering it’s great, so much so that it shouldn’t exist and, in fact, it doesn’t. It’s a scam.
As usually happens in this type of case, the criminals use a well-known brand with a particularly prominent promotion, such as you can have a one-year subscription to a service for 2 dollars while the normal price would be more than 100
This is not to say that it is impossible to fall into the trap, as many people are still unaware of the name change. The scam is discovered as soon as you click on the image that comes in the email, since it redirects to the website https://www. essential wins. com/ and not the official one from HBO Max, as indicated on Maldita.es. Another even bigger clue that this is a scam is that the email it comes from, although it’s called HBO Max, comes from a Gmail account, which doesn’t would never happen if it was a legitimate offer from the company.
When you access the website, a short survey appears that asks us three questions to see if we are the lucky winners of the offer and, regardless of the answers to the questions, we will be told yes. From there we are redirected to the payment platform of the supposed offer, but which is in reality a registration form for a service which has a cost of $27.45 every 14 days.