Few Internet Deception Methods

It is a well known fact that consumers' ability to spot fraud in the Internet is still not very good. Even savvy users sometimes falter against the newest scam. What are the possible Internet Decpetion Methods? Here is a list of few:

• Phishing: (also carding and spoofing) is a form of social engineering, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication, such as an email or an instant message. The term phishing arises from the use of increasingly sophisticated lures to "fish" for users' financial information and passwords.
  

• Pharming: is the exploitation of a vulnerability in the DNS server software that allows a hacker to acquire the Domain Name for a site, and to redirect that Web site's traffic to another Web site.

• Page-jacking and mouse-trapping: are techniques used by scammers to divert Internet users from their intended Web destination (page-jacking) to the scammers site from which the user is unable to leave using their browsers back, forward or even close buttons (mouse-trapping).

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