The most casual fraud which tries to flood in my inbox consists of offers Viagra, enlarging penises or helping in critical situation. Or some Nigerian banker offers me a chance to earn huge money :-) Always it involves send money to an account or go to a site request. It seems to be so naive and simple, but some people sometimes use it.
My professor of media and advertising law asserted there are always 5 - 10 percent of consumers who believes everything and aren’t able to catch any stretcher – even if you claim that while eating this sausage you feel like in paradise. With these simple frauds is it the same.
Phishing is obviously more dangerous – if users get email from address, which seems to be very similar to bank address, they pay it much more attention. In Czech Republic was phishing quite often last time, fraudulent emails contained even bank logo, colors and “signature” of the bank governor. No surprise, some gullible persons “in the interest of better security” revealed their personal information and bank account details.
The thing I really don’t like is mimicking well-known websites names. For example most popular Czech web portal http://www.seznam.cz/ has got several similar parasites - searching engine http://www.sezamn.cz/ and page with music downloading http://www.sezanm.cz/. It is very easy to confuse last letters and these web pages owners know it very well. For me are these pages only annoying, but for web novice it might be dangerous trap.
What’s the bloody point is amazing! I have never had any idea about this or similar page. I´ve read several scams and all were really interesting and some even funny – it is nice to see that also those criminals and mugus can step in the same trap and be beat by their own weapons.
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