The scammers on thenetwork 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 as it is the first issue in news agencies all over the world.
It was only a matter of time before cyber fraudsters took advantage of the publicity to defraud 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 θα σας οδηγήσει στο bergkids [.] com/qz8501, μία by clicking here which simulates a Facebook page.
Beyond that, even if the user does not realize that it is a scam and at the same time still wants to watch the video, the only available option is to click play the video.
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 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 mode μπορεί να σας φαίνεται μηδενικού κινδύνου, αλλά πολλές φορές οι απατεώνες χρησιμοποιούν την ίδια τακτική για να μαζέψουν προσωπικά στοιχεία (διεύθυνση ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου, αριθμό τηλεφώνου) από το θύμα.