The scammers on the internet are relentless and do not hesitate to use current tragic events to achieve their goals.
The recent disaster of the flight could not escape their trap AirAsia QZ8501 as it is the first issue in news agencies all over the world.
It has been a matter of time until cybercriminals have benefited from the publicity of the matter to deceive users in order to direct them to dangerous websites.
A message is circulating on Facebook today and claims to show footage of the AirAsia plane crash.
The fake video will take you to bergkids [.] Com / qz8501, a Facebook-like page.
From then on, even if the user δεν συνειδητοποιήσει ότι είναι απάτη και ταυτόχρονα εξακολουθεί να θέλει να παρακολουθήσει το βίντεο, η μόνη διαθέσιμη επιλογή του είναι να κάνει κλικ στο play του βίντεο.
The bogus website will encourage the user to share this video on Facebook and then redirect it to a next fake YouTube-like site. The second fake page is urvashi [.] Altervista [.] Org / video / vid [.] Php
And in this case, the only clickable spot is the supposed play of the video, which asks you to share it on Facebook.
For a user who likes to always cast a closer look at the web pages he enters he will see that he cannot get access in the comments section, which either describe what someone needs to do to watch the video, or display fake responses from people who claim to have already seen the video.
In most cases, all these answers and comments are just a picture and a click on any point of it has no response.
Its purpose is to attract the power victim to share fraud with his friends. The site, after the second click, redirects you to a list of addresses where it will again ask you to share it etc etc ..
Christopher Boyd from Malwarebytes says that the ultimate goal of deception is for the victim to complete the entire path of the false pages for which scammers will be paid.
All of the above mode it may seem like zero risk to you, but many times scammers use the same tactic to collect personal information (address email, phone number) from the victim.
