Fraudsters using same tactics as retailers over Black Friday

[Daniel Puchert]

Black Friday warning for South African shoppers

Online scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with fraudsters taking advantage of the same strategies retailers use to sell products to consumers on Black Friday.

This is according to Brian Pinnock, VP of sales engineering at Mimecast South Africa, who told Cape Talk that the stigma that victims are at fault for falling for scams must be removed.

 

[UB40]

You have to be pretty dumb to fall for online scams in this day and age

 

[PaulGherkin]

You have to be pretty dumb to fall for online scams in this day and age

It depends, the scammers have upped their game tremendously, to go as far as to completely and cleanly clone the retailer's website. If you don't know a thing about web development and haven't been trained to spot phishing you're going to fall into the trap

 

[UB40]

It depends, the scammers have upped their game tremendously, to go as far as to completely and cleanly clone the retailer's website. If you don't know a thing about web development and haven't been trained to spot phishing you're going to fall into the trap

No matter how drunk I am there is no way my PC allows me to that site they mentioned

 

[PaulGherkin]

No matter how drunk I am there is no way my PC allows me to that site they mentioned

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The average internet user cannot afford a Fortigate or its expensive licenses. Also, how would they know or get updates on dodgy sites.

 

[FiestaST]

Pot Kak:

 

[gregmcc]

The A record for that domain has already been removed so the site is not reachable.

 

[Quicks]

Well the deals here in SA is normally so underwhelming. Just ask yourself if the deal is too good to be true.

 

[bwana]

So by extension are retailers using the same tactics as fraudsters?

 

[Charlesjjm]

So by extension are retailers using the same tactics as fraudsters?

Indeed. “Unfortunately, during Black Friday, retailers exploit the same part of your brain that the fraudsters do.”

 

[My_King]

You have to be pretty dumb to fall for online scams in this day and age

@harryhcs is a MyBB hacker...

 

[Swa]

If it's a better deal than during the year it's a scam. Only rule you need to know.

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

The A record for that domain has already been removed so the site is not reachable.

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