Please Do Beware of Top 10 “Hacker Traps” While Online Shopping

Online shopping has become the craze of fashion. Currently, Chinese online shopper has been close to hundreds of million, the whole year’s total online purchasing expected to up to about 250 billion Yuan. Facing such a large consumer market, some network hackers dig a great many traps to gain users’ money by cheating while users purchase online.

As a professional electronics retail shop (http://www.epathchina.com), epathchina.com strongly remind consumers Top 10 traps in the online shopping process which recommended by the Kingsoft internet security expert.

1. Win a prize
Some cheaters pretend to be some famous big brand company, spread the winning information among the users via QQ, TBWW these common tools, to induce users step into a fake page with a very high similarity and lead users input e-bank’s account and code or remit to some other appointed accounts.

2. Low price temptation
The swindlers take advantage of low price to appeal the users’ attention to phishing sites, once the user relax vigilance; it is very possible to bring property loss.

3. Search fraud
Generally speaking, users have to use search engines while purchase online. Take e-bank for instance, most users need help of search engine to search e-bank address. Hackers design a same page like the real e-bank website through making a fake website; once users go into carelessly, hackers will start to practice fraud.

4. Page jacking
Hackers draw support from embedded Trojan in users’ computer, which will do HOSTS skip control to the browser and guide the user to the fake website and then record the users’ account information.

5. Switch URL
While selecting commodities, users often find out information and bargain. This moment, users need to pay clear attention to whether the link sellers send to you is normal. Kingsoft has found hackers send some bogus phishing sites to buyers and allure buyers to purchase on the phishing websites.

6. Payment fraud
Login e-bank is the most possible stage for users to encounter hackers use Trojan to have keyboard record and screen record; keyboard record can help hackers obtain the users’ login account, screen record can take down each step operated by users.

7. True or false transaction
Counterfeit online stores and commodities pages to carry on defraud. Through forging shops and products page and camouflage as seller, then make use of transactional message or IM, email these ways to spread phishing sites and take all kinds of reasons to cheat buyers to click, finally, realize their defraud.

8. Trojan page
Online phising sites also collude with Trojan websites; with Trojan websites cause virus, Trojan batch steal accounts and finally target at phishing way, which make users impossible to defend effectively.

9. E-mail trap
Lawbreakers send many e-mails with contents of winning prizes, consultant, and account checking etc. to allure users fill in financial account and code, or use various urgent reasons to require receivers log in some page to submit personal information like username, password, ID number, credit card and so on, afterwards, steal users’ fund.

10."Broiler" transaction
Online shopper get virus through browsing Trojan website or download software, the computer becomes "Broiler", the Trojan can steal users’ bank account and code, via setting fake bank upgraded window to lead user input password code and transfer users’ property.

Therefore, epathchina.com do wishes online buyers to beware of various traps while purchasing online. More carefulness, more security.