Hello and welcome to the Monday, August 11th,

2025 edition of the Sands and the Net Storm Center's Stormcast. My name is Johannes Ulrich,

recording today from Jacksonville, Florida. And this episode is brought you by the SandsSyskot

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This weekend's diary was about an at least new to me scam targeting,

well, a Tesla users or Tesla enthusiasts,

trying to pre-order some Tesla products,

in particular the Tesla Optimus robot. If you're searching for

Tesla Optimus pre-orders on Google, you're being confronted with a number of, well,

links that are sponsored, so they're paid for it, but they're not paid for by Tesla. If you're

clicking on any of these links, you are ending up on a lookalike

side that looks like a little bit older design of the Tesla website, but the latest domain name

being used here and that has been changing over the last few days is offers dash Tesla.com.

And now you're able here to pre-order some yet unreleased products,

for example, the Optimus robot, which of course has been sort of heavily featured in the news,

and it will happily allow you to pay for this robot using your credit card.

I went through the checkout process here and using just a fake credit card number.

And it let me go through so it didn't attempt to charge the number because that would

have failed.

It may use those numbers later to maybe resell them, use them on other websites.

That's not really clear what the real endgame here is of this particular scam,

but likely thereafter stealing the credit card data.

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