One online store has revealed the devastating impact these scams are having.
Scammers are creating exact clones of South African online shopping websites, advertising their scam sites on Facebook using great deals as bait, and taking payment for orders but never shipping the products.recently had such an incident, but they aren’t the only online store that scammers have cloned to steal people’s money.fake sites list returns dozens of sites targeted in spoofing attacks.
Customers ripped off by the spoof website told Desray that the charges appeared on their credit card statements as being processed by Acqra.com. Namesilo said Dixon had to prove it was a scam site before they would do anything, and Cloudflare sent an automated response and no further feedback. “Each time a phishing site is shut down, the link in the Facebook advertisement is changed to a new domain,” Dixon said.
Dixon said they had reports from 50 or more customers, but he suspects there were many more too embarrassed to report it.
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