New types of fraud on the Internet with examples and how to fight them

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GSM subscriptions
Moscow resident Evgeniya Petrovna noticed that her mobile phone service started to cost her much more than before: the monthly payment amount increased by 400 rubles. After visiting a communications store, it turned out that the pensioner was subscribed to a joke mailing list. And her 10-year-old grandson was to blame for this, as he was playing with his smartphone and accidentally "signed up" for a GSM subscription.

How does this work:

This type of subscription does not require hotmail email list confirmation from the subscriber. To order the service, you just need to click a button on a special page. Moreover, the operators do not violate formal rules. The landing page indicates the subscription terms, but the text is typed in very small font, which, as a rule, no one reads. This type of fraud on the Internet is based precisely on the inattention of users. People see one big button "Read", click on it and thereby subscribe to a paid mailing of some content.

Often, the SMS notification about the subscription that comes after this goes unnoticed, and 30 rubles are debited from the mobile phone account every day. The victims of this type of fraud on the Internet are most often small children and pensioners who are not very well versed in modern technology.

How to protect yourself:

Pay attention to browser warnings, carefully read all incoming SMS, especially when they are about services. If you accidentally agreed to receive any mailing and are unable to unsubscribe from it yourself, contact your service provider for help. The store will not only help you disable this service, but also, at your request, block the ability to make any types of subscriptions.

Clickjacking
As soon as Obninsk resident Alexey found the necessary website on the Internet and began to look through exercise bike models, the resource manager called him. She politely asked what kind of exercise bike Alexey needed. The man was confused: how did they find out his number? How did they understand what exactly he was interested in?

How does this work:

This type of online fraud is not a fraud in the literal sense of the word. It is rather the cleverness of programmers using modern technology to obtain the contacts of site visitors even before they have provided them voluntarily. But for many Internet users, the sudden awareness of managers is truly akin to magic.

In fact, it's simple. The site is covered with a layer invisible to humans, on which a special social network button like share is installed. The user accidentally clicks on it while scrolling the page and thus likes the store group. The manager receives a link to the user's profile with all his data, then matches the like with the product page. All that remains is to call the specified phone number and offer your services.