Nowadays Social network crawled with full of Fake Scam messages. People Make Shadow Copy of Original Websites & Add their Own Fake Content to it. They do it for Fraudulent activities.Such as increasing traffic in websites.
What makes the scam so effective is that as the link appears on an existing conversation thread, it appears to have come from your friend, making it appear more genuine.
Users unwittingly click the link which takes them to a fake website, usually offering discount vouchers for big name brands.
Users are then asked to register details including name, email, mobile phone number and address, making it easy for scammers to steal this information. The message itself instructs the user to forward the message to few contacts so that they can redeem the offer. But far from money off a coffee and a muffin, the user is left with malware on their phone, which can then be used to steal their identity or access their banking details.
Recently i encountered a message with fake domain claiming an Amazon Anniversary offer. The exact wordings of the message that is being circulated consistently on social media is as follows
In this message we can see a link starting from amazon . Normally people will believe its amazon site link. But if you look carefully you ca find out this is a fake amazon site id .You can find with small knowledge of IT.
Why this link is Fake ?
www.amazon.com, is the genuine link for Amazon store. In India www.amazon.in . There are are more letters in this message between amazon and .com .you can check almost every fake links by identifying in this simple tip.
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