Another Web Log

At wikipedia, scam is defined as a confidence trick. It may refer to all type of tricks I have wrote about before. But here I will define it differently. I classified SCAM as tricks which using website as the media to convince people spending money without any suspicious. And by the time the victims realize they have been tricked, the money is gone.

And there were so many schemes using in the tricks. Some of them use money game schemes like HYIP or Internet Investment. I do not said that all of Internet Investment is always a SCAM, but lot of them were. And some schemes pretends as online store selling interesting stuffs like electronic equipment, computer, cellphone or other things. Mostly they offering half of the normal price. And as always, when it sounds too good to be true, then mostly it is untrue.

I still try to get SCAM website I ever saw for examples. But since I never save any of them, it would need more time than I expected.

I know that I promise to write about scam at my last post in this category. But today a phishing message appear in my Yahoo Messenger, and I feel I must write about this one too.

The message were came from one of my contact. You can see the message at picture below.

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I know this is phishing, but I must click the link provided in the message to show you the phishing process. So after I clicked the link, my browser open me this page.

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As you can see in the address bar, it show page from geocities.com which is a free web hosting service provider. And I try to view the page source, and then find the word “action” as this is part of the tag <form> which have the text input inside it.

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We can see there is an input that have value “goldz.love@yahoo.com” this is the email address of the man behind this phishing. And because this email using yahoo service, I then report this phishing page using yahoo phishing report at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/forms/phishing.html

Note: You might try the page address shown in the first picture, but never ever enter anything to the form.