A statement on a recent scam recommends insights on how online fraudsters voluntarily juggle up a website in order to run a scam. Astonishingly, it shows how simple it is to come up with a believable web identity and use it to launch a scam. The scam was noticed when an online buyer stumbled upon it when searching for a barter online.
The buyer was looking to buy definite electronic items online. It was then that he came upon Nancoelectronics.com, presenting stuff he was looking for, at attractive prices. Being a savvy online purchaser, he decided to check out the company online, prior to making a purchase. However, a search in Google and BBB on the company name yielded little against the company. Reassured in this manner, the buyer decided to go ahead and make purchases from the site.
Very soon, he got a anxious call from his credit card company. An internet company had just swipe $10,000 to his account, it informed. There was little the buyer could do when realization dawned that the website from which he had made online purchases was really a scam.
Examination done later revealed Nanco was a name shared by two other unconnected, pre-existing companies on the web. The scam website had lifted their domain name to cash in on their online credibility. It also lifted a group photograph of faculty members from the website of a Finnish university and broaches the same at their site. Onsite, it introduced the people seen in this photograph as sales professionals working for the company.
On its website, it claimed to be headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, and Rome. An inspection done on their IP address, however, showed they were petty criminals operating out of Malaysia.
The unfortunate online consumer could have been forewarned of the scam. If he had made a search online for the company name with the word ‘scam’ added to it, then he would have received a dissimilar set of search results. The results would have given him enough indications to believe the site was a scam. (thedentalspa.com)