The Internet consumer protection group fighting fraudulent websites

[Daniel Puchert]

The hackers fighting fake websites

Several prominent retailers, including Checkers and Desray, have been targeted by criminals who create replicas of their sites to harvest victims' bank card information.

However, one Internet consumer protection group has taken it upon themselves to tackle this type of crime and has developed a creative way of doing so.

 

[PaulGherkin]

 

[FiestaST]

Several prominent retailers, including Checkers and Desray, have been targeted by criminals who create replicas of their sites to harvest victims' bank card information.

More will appear, much more.

You can bet your bottom dollar (USD).

No need to expand on why.

 

[elp]

Back in the mid 2000s I was working at a large well known hosting company when I noticed some weird traffic patterns on a suspended website mostly by accident while tracking an unrelated issues.. After a bit of tracking I discovered it was these fools.

Here's the thing:
1) We had shutdown the site when the credit card bounced
2) No matter what they claimed they hadn't notified our support or abuse channels. I checked carefully. ISPs hate 419 sites because the credit card is always stolen.
3) At that point the site had been suspended for 6 months but again these imbeciles hadn't bothered to check.
4) I only noticed the traffic by accident. It wasn't enough to actually cause any issues. Its been a long time but I remember it was something like one query every minute or two.

I'm willing to bet that half of their supposed huge database is also out of date rubbish. Fortunately you gentle reader don't need to do anything. Chrome and Firefox both already do somewhat decent jobs of detecting fake sites. Certainly faster and more reliably that this.

Don't get me wrong you have to watch for scams but stay away from this. They are their own kind of scam.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Back in the mid 2000s I was working at a large well known hosting company when I noticed some weird traffic patterns on a suspended website mostly by accident while tracking an unrelated issues.. After a bit of tracking I discovered it was these fools.

Here's the thing:
1) We had shutdown the site when the credit card bounced
2) No matter what they claimed they hadn't notified our support or abuse channels. I checked carefully. ISPs hate 419 sites because the credit card is always stolen.
3) At that point the site had been suspended for 6 months but again these imbeciles hadn't bothered to check.
4) I only noticed the traffic by accident. It wasn't enough to actually cause any issues. Its been a long time but I remember it was something like one query every minute or two.

I'm willing to bet that half of their supposed huge database is also out of date rubbish. Fortunately you gentle reader don't need to do anything. Chrome and Firefox both already do somewhat decent jobs of detecting fake sites. Certainly faster and more reliably that this.

Don't get me wrong you have to watch for scams but stay away from this. They are their own kind of scam.

My man, the average artikels posted here are aimed at mere users, not professionals like us. So this sort of clique beit is more suited to Mrs Jones in her Sandton mansion, and educating her about the "efforts" of people paying for these smart adverts.

 

[gotaway]

2992, of which 558 active, .co.za domains in their list
Now we wait for peoples to state:
1. They purchased from a site on the list, and it is not a scam
2. They were scammed by one of these site

 

[Bliksis]

More will appear, much more.

You can bet your bottom dollar (USD).

No need to expand on why.

I'll bet my bottom Tether on it!