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The spammers will always be able to make fake sites quicker than they can be taken down. Teach your partner safe browsing habits: How domains work, and to neve
by solardev 2y ago
The spammers will always be able to make fake sites quicker than they can be taken down.
Teach your partner safe browsing habits: How domains work, and to never trust anything government unless it's from a .gov.uk directly before the first slash. Bookmark their banks for them and tell them to never access anything banking-related except from those bookmarks, and never from a link or an email. If in doubt, just have them wait and ask you.
My partner got scammed out of $300 a few years back. Told her to never send money to anyone online without checking with me first, and we've been fine since.
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If you really want to, you can report the link to non-government blocklists, like:
- Google's: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/ https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_general/
- uBlock Origin's https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/phishing-filter#phishing-url-blocklist https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/phishing-filter#phishing-u... and https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#malicious-url-blocklist https://gitlab.com/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter#malicious-u...
But I wouldn't bother. They can make them quicker than you can report them.
- VBprogrammer 2y agoIn fairness to her - this wasn't a drive by attack. She was in the process of applying for the benefit that the site claimed to be part of. To my mind this is either a complex technical attack, or more likely perhaps, an inside job. The money from a single victim wouldn't justify creating the website IMHO so I suspect they have a long list of 'warm leads' which makes it a hell of a lot more convincing. She did spot that it was fake a few minutes after inputting her details and we then blocked all her cards. So all they got out of it was some semi-private details (name, address etc).
- solardev 2y agoHow did they get the link to her?