The cheaters at Internet they are ruthless and do not hesitate to use current tragic events in order to achieve their goals.
The recent disaster of the flight could not escape their trap AirAsia QZ8501 since it is the first topic in the newsgraphics agencies worldwide.
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 being released today on Facebook and claims to show plans to crash AirAsia's airplane.
The fake video will take you to bergkids [.] Com / qz8501, a Facebook-like page.
Beyond that even if the user doesn't realize it's a scam and at the same time still wants to watch the video, the only option available to them is to click in the video play.
Η ψεύτικη ιστοσελίδα θα ενθαρρύνει τον χρήστη να μοιραστεί στο Facebook το εν λόγω βίντεο και κατόπιν θα τον ανακατευθύνει σε μια επόμενη ψεύτικη ιστοσελίδα που προσομοιάζει το YouTube. Η δεύτερη ψεύτικη σελίδα είναι η 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 always likes to take a closer look at the websites he enters, he will see that he can not access the comment section, either describing what one has to do to watch the video or displaying false responses from people who seem 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 may seem to you a zero risk, but often scammers use the same tactic to collect personal information (email address, phone number) from the victim.
